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Agasisti, Tommaso – Education Economics, 2011
The objective of this paper is an efficiency analysis concerning higher education systems in European countries. Data have been extracted from OECD data-sets (Education at a Glance, several years), using a non-parametric technique--data envelopment analysis--to calculate efficiency scores. This paper represents the first attempt to conduct such an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Public Sector, Data Analysis
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Madden, Gary; Savage, Scott; Kemp, Steven – Education Economics, 1997
The 1987 Green Paper on Australian higher education recommended abandoning the binary system. The Dawkins plan effectively transferred resources from established universities to the former colleges of advanced education. This study compares initial and subsequent performance of economics departments, using a nonparametric data-envelopment-analysis…
Descriptors: Departments, Economics, Efficiency, Foreign Countries