Efficiency in Education. A Review of Literature and a Way Forward

Kristof De Witte and Laura López-Torres ()
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Laura López-Torres: Business Department, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

No 1501, Working Papers from Departament Empresa, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Abstract: This paper provides an extensive and comprehensive overview of the literature on efficiency in education. It summarizes the earlier applied inputs, outputs and contextual variables, as well as the used data sources of papers in the field of efficiency in education. Moreover, it reviews the papers on education that applied methodologies as Data Envelopment Analysis, Malmquist index, Bootstrapping, robust frontiers, metafrontier, or Stochastic Frontier Analysis. Based on the insights of the literature review, a second part of the paper provides some ways forward. It attempts to establish a link between the parametric ‘economics of education’ literature and the (semiparametric) ‘efficiency in education literature’. We point to the similarities between matching and conditional efficiency; difference-in-differences and metafrontiers; and quantile regressions and partial frontiers. The paper concludes with some operative directions for prospective researchers in the field.

Keywords: Efficiency; Education; Review; Education Economics; Operational Research (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D61 I20 I21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40 pages
Date: 2015-06, Revised 2015-04
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Published in Working Papers at the Department of Business, June 2015, pages 1-40

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