Super-efficiency of education institutions: an application to economics departments

Matthias Gnewuch and Klaus Wohlrabe

Munich Reprints in Economics from University of Munich, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper investigates the efficiency of 188 economics departments around the world using data from RePEc. We go beyond the heavily used data envelopment analysis and utilize partial frontier analysis - specifically order- and order-m - which addresses some of the drawbacks of the standard efficiency frontier analysis and allows for so-called super-efficient departments. We examine the particularities of these approaches and find that the super-efficient departments are not only the usual suspects'. Furthermore, standard output rankings are not well correlated with our estimated efficiency rankings, which themselves are rather similar.

Date: 2018
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Published in Education Economics 6 26(2018): pp. 610-623

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