The efficiency of Australian universities: a data envelopment analysis

被引：388

作者：

Abbott, M ^{[1
]}

Doucouliagos, C

机构：

[1] Victoria Univ Technol, Dept Appl Econ, Melbourne, Vic 3000, Australia

[2] Deakin Univ, Sch Econ, Burwood, Vic, Australia

来源：

ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION REVIEW | 2003年 / 22卷 / 01期

基金：

澳大利亚研究理事会;

关键词：

efficiency; educational economics; data envelopment analysis; technical efficiency; scale efficiency;

D O I：

10.1016/S0272-7757(01)00068-1

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

With participation in higher education amongst young people rising, governments around the world have been faced with increasing pressure on their finances, giving rise to the need to operate universities with a higher degree of efficiency. In this paper, non-parametric techniques are used to estimate technical and scale efficiency of individual Australian universities. Various measures of output and inputs are used. The results show that regardless of the output-input mix, Australian universities as a whole recorded high levels of efficiency relative to each other. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

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页码：89 / 97

页数：9