Using Data Envelopment Analysis to Improve Estimates of Higher Education Institution's Per-student Education Costs

Carlo Salerno

Education Economics, 2006, vol. 14, issue 3, 281-295

Abstract: This paper puts forth a data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach to estimating higher education institutions' per-student education costs (PSCs) in an effort to redress a number of methodological problems endemic to such estimations, particularly the allocation of shared expenditures between education and other institutional activities. An example is given using data for a sample of higher education institutions in The Netherlands and the results are compared with PSC estimates generated by a more traditional approach. Although several methodological concerns still persist, the use of DEA is argued to increase the likelihood of producing more realistic cost estimates for individual institutions.

Keywords: Higher education; resource use; costs; efficiency; data envelopment analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1080/09645290600777485

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