A Hybrid Enhanced Scatter Search—Composite I-Distance Indicator (eSS-CIDI) Optimization Approach for Determining Weights Within Composite Indicators

Maričić, Milica; Egea, José A.; Jeremić, Veljko

doi:10.1007/s11205-018-02056-x

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“…The lower and upper bounds for weights were generated by the bootstrapped I‐distance. The weights obtained after 1,000 iterations of bootstrapping to 63% of the sample (24 entities in each iteration) are shown in Table . The lower limit (L) in the GAR DEA model was determined by the minimum obtained weight and the upper limit (U) by the maximum obtained weight.…”

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Going beyond health efficiency: What really matters?

Radojičić

Jeremić

Savić

2019

Health Planning & Management

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Both citizens and policymakers demand the best possible results from a country's healthcare system. It is of utmost importance to accurately and objectively assess the efficiency of a healthcare system and to note the key indicators, where resources are lost, and possibilities for improvement. This paper evaluates the efficiency of health systems in 38 countries, mainly members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, using data envelopment analysis (DEA). In the first stage, bootstrapped Ivanovic distance is used to generate weights for the indicators, thus taking into consideration different country's goals, but not to the extent of reducing the possibility of comparison. The analysis shows that human resources are the most important health system resource and countries should pay special attention to developing and employing competent medical workers. The reorganization of human resources and the funds allocated to them could also increase efficiency. The second stage examines environmental indicators to find the causes of inefficiency. No proof is found that any one basic health system funding model produces better health outcomes than the others. Obesity is identified as a major issue. K E Y W O R D Sefficiency evaluation, data envelopment analysis, health systems,

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Going beyond health efficiency: What really matters?

Radojičić

Jeremić

Savić

2019

Health Planning & Management

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“…From an academic perspective, particularly in operations research, parametric and nonparametric frontier models have gained considerable importance in recent years (Bȃdin et al, 2014;Emrouznejad and Yang, 2018). On the other hand, composite indicators have become popular and widely used metrics for assessing complex phenomena which cannot be evaluated with a single variable (Maricic et al, 2019). A significant number of these evaluations correspond to measures of effectiveness of organizations, countries or regions, which are usually transformed into rankings with high degrees of publicity (see, for instance Benito and Romera, 2011;Castillo-Giménez et al, 2019;Ciommi et al, 2017).…”

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Evaluation and determinants of preschool effectiveness in Chile

Giménez

Thieme

Prior

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Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

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Early intervention in quality education is a way to equalize opportunities, a premise assumed by several countries that has increased interest in preschool education, which is now a relevant area of public policy. However, the performance of preschool education centers has received relatively scarce research attention. Consistent with the above, there are no studies quantifying the level of effectiveness with which these centers operate. This study examines the problem and aims to evaluate the performance of preschool education centers that serve children from lower socioeconomic families in Chile. For this, a centralized DEA Assurance Region model is proposed, which, in addition to avoiding the main criticisms received by the traditional Benefit of Doubt models, shows important differences in the results of efficacy and weights of the composite indicators. In addition, a second stage analysis is carried out using decision trees to identify variables that determine the composition of homogeneous preschool groups according to their effectiveness. The target population evaluated is kindergartens serving families with low socioeconomic status in urban and rural areas in Chile, and results reveal the importance of three structural factors: family income, kindergarten size, and location.

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“…To evaluate the weighting scheme for the NRI, Maricic et al (2019) applied the enhanced Scatter Search (eSS) metaheuristics technique to obtain a weighting scheme that would increase the stability of the composite indicator. The objective function is based on the relative contributions of the indicators, whereas the problem constraints rely on the bootstrap Composite I-Distance Indicator (CIDI) approach.…”

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“…The eSS-CIDI approach combines the exploration capability of eSS and data-driven constraints devised from the bootstrap CIDI. The results obtained by Maricic et al (2019) initially suggested that the equal weightings for each sub-index of the NRI could change when the eSS-CIDI was applied. The proposed model does not, however, guarantee a more stable solution than the official estimation method, and thus it should not be changed.…”

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Effects of innovative entrepreneurship and the information society on social progress: an international analysis

Hoz-Rosales¹,

Ballesta²,

Tamayo‐Torres³

2019

JESI

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The effects of entrepreneurship and information and communication technology (ICT) on countries' development have been extensively studied, mainly from the perspective of their contributions to economic growth. However, from the human development paradigm, economic income is only resource helping people satisfy their economic needs. This study provides new evidence to bridge the gap in our understanding of how entrepreneurship and ICT improve the quality of people's lives. To achieve this goal, we use the capabilities approach as a theoretical framework. The empirical analysis was conducted using ordinary least squares with a sample of countries to provide evidence that innovative entrepreneurship, as measured by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, has a positive relationship with human development, as measured by the Social Progress Index. The results show that ICT, as measured by the Networked Readiness Index, is positively related to social progress, indicating that ICT is a tool that helps people improve their ability to lead the life they desire. Finally, we find that ICT boosts the positive effect of innovative entrepreneurship on social progress, and thus, that enhancing ICT, and with it, entrepreneurial innovation activity, improves the quality of life.

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A Hybrid Enhanced Scatter Search—Composite I-Distance Indicator (eSS-CIDI) Optimization Approach for Determining Weights Within Composite Indicators

Cited by 18 publications

References 148 publications

Going beyond health efficiency: What really matters?

Going beyond health efficiency: What really matters?

Evaluation and determinants of preschool effectiveness in Chile

Effects of innovative entrepreneurship and the information society on social progress: an international analysis

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