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Agasisti, Tommaso – Education Economics, 2013
In this study, data envelopment analysis (DEA) is used to compute efficiency scores for a sample of Italian schools by employing OECD-PISA2006 data aggregated at school level. Efficiency has been defined as the ability to transform inputs (resources, student background, etc.) into outputs (student achievement). Different versions of the DEA models…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools, Efficiency, Competition
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Perelman, Sergio; Santin, Daniel – Education Economics, 2011
The aim of the present paper is to examine the observed differences in Students' test performance across public and private-voucher schools in Spain. For this purpose, we explicitly consider that education is a multi-input multi-output production process subject to inefficient behaviors, which can be identified at student level using a parametric…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Private Schools, Secondary School Students