ERIC Number: EJ884669
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2010-Aug
Pages: 8
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ISSN: ISSN-0272-7757
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Measuring Efficiency of Tunisian Schools in the Presence of Quasi-Fixed Inputs: A Bootstrap Data Envelopment Analysis Approach
Essid, Hedi; Ouellette, Pierre; Vigeant, Stephane
Economics of Education Review, v29 n4 p589-596 Aug 2010
The objective of this paper is to measure the efficiency of high schools in Tunisia. We use a statistical data envelopment analysis (DEA)-bootstrap approach with quasi-fixed inputs to estimate the precision of our measure. To do so, we developed a statistical model serving as the foundation of the data generation process (DGP). The DGP is constructed such that we can implement both smooth homogeneous and heterogeneous bootstrap methods. Bootstrap simulations were used to estimate and correct the bias, and to construct confidence intervals for the efficiency measures. The simulation results show that the efficiency measures are subject to sampling variations. The adjusted measure reveals that high schools with residence services would have to give up less than 12.1% of their resources on average to be efficient. (Contains 5 tables.)
Descriptors: High Schools, Intervals, Statistical Data, Foreign Countries, Computation, Models, Heterogeneous Grouping, Homogeneous Grouping, Simulation, Efficiency
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: High Schools
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Tunisia
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