Productivity, efficiency, and technical change of Tunisian schools: a bootstrapped Malmquist approach with quasi-fixed inputs

Essid, Hédi; Ouellette, Pierre; Vigeant, Stéphane

doi:10.1016/j.omega.2013.04.001

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“…Lastly, some papers have applied a dynamic approach such as Malmquist index (introduced as a theoretical index by Caves et al, 1982) in order to expand the findings obtained through DEA and to reveal the different changes in efficiency scores over the time (technical efficiency, scale efficiency and technological change) (e.g., Essid et al, 2014;Johnson and Ruggiero, 2014). This method is particularly attractive for the education sector where multiple inputs and outputs are used and prices are unknown or difficult to estimate.…”

Section: Methodological Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Efficiency in education: a review of literature and a way forward

Witte

López-Torres

2017

Journal of the Operational Research Society

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La sèrie Documents de treball d'economia de l'empresa presenta els avanços i resultats d'investigacions en curs que han estat presentades i discutides en aquest departament; això no obstant, les opinions són responsabilitat dels autors. El document no pot ser reproduït total ni parcialment sense el consentiment de l'autor/a o autors/res. Dirigir els comentaris i suggerències directament a l'autor/a o autors/res, a la direcció que apareix a la pàgina següent.A Working Paper in the Documents de treball d'economia de l'empresa series is intended as a mean whereby a faculty researcher's thoughts and findings may be communicated to interested readers for their comments. Nevertheless, the ideas put forwards are responsibility of the author. Accordingly a Working Paper should not be quoted nor the data referred to without the written consent of the author. Please, direct your comments and suggestions to the author, which address shows up in the next page. A p r i l 2 0 1 5 EFFICIENCY IN EDUCATION. A REVIEW OF LITERATURE AND A WAY FORWARD AbstractThis paper provides an extensive and comprehensive overview of the literature on efficiency in education. It summarizes the earlier applied inputs, outputs and contextual variables, as well as the used data sources of papers in the field of efficiency in education. Moreover, it reviews the papers on education that applied methodologies as Data Envelopment Analysis, Malmquist index, Bootstrapping, robust frontiers, metafrontier, or Stochastic Frontier Analysis. Based on the insights of the literature review, a second part of the paper provides some ways forward. It attempts to establish a link between the parametric 'economics of education' literature and the (semiparametric) 'efficiency in education literature'. We point to the similarities between matching and conditional efficiency; difference-in-differences and metafrontiers; and quantile regressions and partial frontiers. The paper concludes with some operative directions for prospective researchers in the field.

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Section: Methodological Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Efficiency in education: a review of literature and a way forward

Witte

López-Torres

2017

Journal of the Operational Research Society

303

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“…DEA and related non-parametric methods continue to be used to derive measures of efficiency in all sectors of education, including: kindergartens and primary schools (Mancebón and Mar Molinero 2000;Burney et al 2013); secondary schools (Bradley et al 2001;Ramanathan 2001;Waldo 2007;Mancebón and Muñiz 2008;Portela and Camanho 2010;Mancebón et al 2012;Portela et al 2012;Haelermans and Ruggiero 2013;Essid et al 2014;Podinovski et al 2014); education administrative areas (Smith and Mayston 1987;Ray 1991;Thanassoulis and Dunstan 1994;Ruggiero et al 1995;Ruggiero 1996;Grosskopf et al 1999;Ruggiero 1999b;Grosskopf and Moutray 2001;Fukuyama and Weber 2002;Rassouli-Currier 2007;Ruggiero 2007;Ouellette and Vierstraete 2010); post-compulsory but pre-higher education (Bradley et al 2010;Johnes et al 2012); and universities (Beasley 1990;Mar Molinero 1996;Giménez and Martínez 2006;Fandel 2007;Dehnokhalaji et al 2010;Thanassoulis et al 2011;Duh et al 2012;Bayraktar et al 2013;De Witte et al 2013). DEA has been used to assess efficiency of individual academic departments or programmes within an institution (Colbert et al 2000;Kao and Liu 2000;…”

Section: Efficiency and Performance Measurementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Operational Research in education

Johnes

2015

European Journal of Operational Research

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Operational Research (OR) techniques have been applied, from the early stages of the discipline, to a wide variety of issues in education. At the government level, these include questions of what resources should be allocated to education as a whole and how these should be divided amongst the individual sectors of education and the institutions within the sectors. Another pertinent issue concerns the efficient operation of institutions, how to measure it, and whether resource allocation can be used to incentivise efficiency savings. Local governments, as well as being concerned with issues of resource allocation, may also need to make decisions regarding, for example, the creation and location of new institutions or closure of existing ones, as well as the day-to-day logistics of getting pupils to schools. Issues of concern for managers within schools and colleges include allocating the budgets, scheduling lessons and the assignment of students to courses. This survey provides an overview of the diverse problems faced by government, managers and consumers of education, and the OR techniques which have typically been applied in an effort to improve operations and provide solutions.

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“…Fewer studies (Parteka & Wolszczak-Derlacz, 2013;Essid et al 2014) have applied this technique in the Educational Sector. Essid et al (2014) measured the productivity of high schools in Tunisia over the period 2000/2001-2003/ 2004 using Malmquist productivity index that took into account quasi-fixed factors which were decomposed into technical efficiency, scale efficiency and technological change. The application of this methodology to Tunisian high schools shows the high sensitivity to sample variations of the observed index changes and its components.…”

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“…Orienting Educational Policies in the right direction would be improved by an understanding of the productivity sources and the identification of potential bottlenecks. Identifying the exact sources of productivity changes would allow the managers of Polytechnics and government to act on the specific needs (Essid et al, 2014).…”

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Computing Statistical Precision of Efficiency and Productivity Change Indices: A Bootstrap Application to Ghanaian Polytechnics

Mends-Brew

Ashiagbor

2016

ESJ

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This study employs a bivariate smoothing bootstrap technique to obtain a statistical inference for Technical Efficiency and Malmquist Indices and their components of Polytechnics in Ghana over the period 2009-2014. The main contribution of this paper is to provide an Efficiency Analysis using a non-parametric approach with a robust estimator. This methodology is empirically being applied in the analysis of Polytechnic Education in Ghana because it affords us the opportunity to compute the statistical significance of changes in Polytechnics’ Technical Efficiency and Productivity Indices and their respective components. Results showed that averagely, Technical Efficiency fluctuated over the period; however, Polytechnic Education experienced a significant technological regress, with few Polytechnics achieving increases in productivity led by improvements in efficiency. Policy implications are derived.

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Productivity, efficiency, and technical change of Tunisian schools: a bootstrapped Malmquist approach with quasi-fixed inputs

Cited by 47 publications

References 32 publications

Efficiency in education: a review of literature and a way forward

Efficiency in education: a review of literature and a way forward

Operational Research in education

Computing Statistical Precision of Efficiency and Productivity Change Indices: A Bootstrap Application to Ghanaian Polytechnics

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