Beyond frontiers: comparing the efficiency of higher education decision-making units across more than one country

Tommaso Agasisti () and Geraint Johnes

Education Economics, 2009, vol. 17, issue 1, 59-79

Abstract: We employ Data Envelopment Analysis to compute the technical efficiency of Italian and English higher education institutions. Our results show that, in relation to the country-specific frontier, institutions in both countries are typically very efficient. However, institutions in England are more efficient than those in Italy when we compare jointly their performances. We also look at the evolution of technical efficiency scores over a four-year period, and find that, in line with an error-correction hypothesis, Italian universities are improving their technical efficiency while English universities are obtaining stable scores. Policy implications are addressed.

Keywords: higher education; efficiency; data envelopment analysis; malmquist indices (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1080/09645290701523291

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