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 …

This paper investigates the inefficiency and productivity of 64 Chinese research universities
and their evolution over the recent period of 2010–2013, where the production process of …

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 …

This paper proposes an extension of the non-parametric long-term evaluation of efficiency,
the conditional panel data DEA model, which takes into account the panel structure of the …

This paper uses a fully nonparametric framework to assess the efficiency of primary schools
using data about schools in 16 European countries participating in PIRLS 2011. This study …

In this paper, we propose a different way of using the Malmquist index that allows us to
further analyze the relative performance divergences between two groups of decision …

Brazilian educational indicators have shown virtually no improvement since 2000, according
to national and international evaluations. However, there are large disparities among …

In applications of data envelopment analysis (DEA), the inputs and outputs representing
environmental and quality characteristics of the production process are often stated in the …

This study aimed to identify the critical factors and items affecting the productivity of
sustainable human resources in a Railway Operation Company based on the perceptions of …