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| Afonso, Antonio; St. Aubyn, Miguel. |
| We address the efficiency in education and health sectors for a sample of OECD countries by applying two alternative non-parametric methodologies: FDH and DEA. Those are two areas where public expenditure is of great importance so that findings have strong implications in what concerns public sector efficiency. When estimating the efficiency frontier we focus on measures of quantity inputs. We believe this approach to be advantageous since a country may well be efficient from a technical point of view but appear as inefficient if the inputs it uses are expensive. Efficient outcomes across sectors and analytical methods seem to cluster around a small number of core countries, even if for different reasons: Japan, Korea and Sweden. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Education; Health; Expenditure efficiency; Production possibility frontier; FDH; DEA; C14; H51; H52; I18; I21; I28. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/37107 |
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| Lutz, Wolfgang. |
| This paper summarizes new scientific evidence supporting the hypothesis that among the many factors contributing to international development, the combination of education and health stands out as a root cause on which other dimensions of development depend. Much of this recent analysis is based on new reconstructions and projections of populations by age, sex and four levels of educational attainment for more than 120 countries using the demographic method of multi-state population dynamics. It also refers to a series of systems analytical population–development–environment case studies that comprehensively assess the role of population and education factors relative to other factors in the struggle for sustainable development. The paper also claims that... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Human Capital; Education; Health; Root cause of development; ‘Quality’ dimension in population analysis; Labor and Human Capital; I18; I28. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/92710 |
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| Cortes, Darwin; Friebel, Guido; Maldonado, Dario. |
| We model the decisions of young individuals to stay in school or drop-out and engage in criminal activities. We build on the literature on human capital and crime engagement and use the framework of Banerjee (1993) that assumes that the information needed to engage in crime arrives in the form of a rumor and that individuals update their beliefs about the profitability of crime relative to education. These assumptions allow us to study the effect of social interactions on crime. We first show that a society with fully rational students is less vulnerable to crime than an otherwise identical society with boundedly rational students. We also investigate the spillovers from the actions of talented students to less talented students and show that policies that... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Human Capital; The Economics of Rumors; Social Interactions; Urban Economics; Labor and Human Capital; D82; D83; I28. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/96845 |
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| Contreras, Dante. |
| For over twenty years, a voucher system has been used in Chile to promote competition in the educational system between public and private schools. Attending a private subsidized school is associated with increased standardized test scores, but the apparent impact is relatively small. Controlling for school choice using a supply-side instrument (school availability at community level) implies substantially larger impacts of the voucher system. The effect of parents education on academic performance is smaller than that implied by simple OLS estimates that do not control for school choice. Finally, the results also show that family school choice is gender biased, females are sent more often to voucher schools while males are sent more often to private (non... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Education; Vouchers; Gender; Chile; Production Economics; I21; I22; I28. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28442 |
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| Saito, Yoshie; McIntosh, Christopher S.. |
| The efficiency of public education is examined using a cost indirect output distance function. Efficiency estimates are obtained using data envelopment analysis applied to data from Georgia public schools. Georgia school districts utilize educational budgets with reasonable efficiency, achieving an overall efficiency of 98% with a range of 93%-100%. If all school districts were 100% efficient, outputs could be expanded 2%. This could be achieved by increasing funding $75.46 million state-wide in total for each of the 3 years. From the consumers’ (voters) point of view, this result suggests that inefficiency costs Georgia, on average, a total of $226.38 million from 1994 to 1996. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Cost-indirect output distance function; Data envelopment analysis; Education; Efficiency; H72; I21; I28; C60. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43197 |
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