 Measuring the efficiency of British universities: a multi-period data envelopment analysisA. T. Flegg, D. O. Allen, K. Field and T. W. Thurlow Education Economics, 2004, vol. 12, issue 3, 231-249 Abstract: This paper uses data envelopment analysis to examine the technical efficiency (TE) of 45 British universities in the period 1980/81-1992/93. This period was chosen primarily because it was characterized by major changes in public funding and in student : staff ratios. To shed light on the causes of variations in efficiency, TE is decomposed into pure technical efficiency, congestion efficiency and scale efficiency. The analysis indicates that there was a substantial rise in the weighted geometric mean TE score during the study period, although this rise was most noticeable between 1987/88 and 1990/91. The rising TE scores are attributed largely to the gains in pure technical efficiency and congestion efficiency, with scale efficiency playing a minor role. The Malmquist approach is then used to distinguish between changes in TE and intertemporal shifts in the efficiency frontier. The results reveal that total factor productivity rose by 51.5% between 1980/81 and 1992/93, and that most of this increase was due to a substantial outward shift in the efficiency frontier during this period. Date: 2004 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:edecon:v:12:y:2004:i:3:p:231-249 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1080/0904529042000258590 Access Statistics for this article Education Economics is currently edited by Caren Wareing and Steve Bradley More articles in Education Economics from Taylor & Francis Journals |
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