This paper presents a literature review on Data Envelopment Analysis assessments of
economic efficiency, covering methodological developments and empirical applications. We …

This paper provides an extensive overview of the literature on efficiency in education. It
summarizes the earlier applied inputs, outputs and contextual variables, as well as the used …

In recent years there has been an exponential growth in the number of publications related
to theory and applications of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Charnes, Cooper, and …

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 …

How can this puzzle of larger demands and fiscal strengthening be solved? This edition of
the development in the Americas (DIA) report focuses precisely on this question. The book …

Human trafficking is a complex transnational problem for society and the global economy.
While researchers have studied this topic in a variety of contexts, including the criminology …

The purpose of this study is to examine changes in the efficiency of Taiwan's compulsory
education system between 2011 and 2020, identify the priority school sub-system for …

The measurement of public service provision (PSP) performance and identification of its
influencing variables are of great importance for the government to efficiently utilize public …

In a recent paper to this journal, the authors developed a methodology that allows the
incorporation of ratio inputs and outputs in the variable and constant returns-to-scale DEA …

This study uses the metafrontier Malmquist-Luenberger index to measure changes in the
productivity of 4587 schools in the Colombian education system. Public and private schools …