[PDF] Top 20 Cross-country Efficiency of Secondary Education Provision: a Semi-parametric Analysis with Non- discretionary Inputs

... assess efficiency of decision-making units ...the education sector 4 , but rarely in an international framework with whole countries as units of ...use of bootstrapping ... See full document

... performance of the public sector in general and of health outcomes in particular, including Afonso, Schuknecht and Tanzi (2005) for public expenditure in the OECD, and Gupta and Verhoeven (2001) for ... See full document

... to secondary education affect efficiency and student achievement using the DEA ...the efficiency of secondary education in OECD countries by estimating a ... See full document

... a cross section of OECD countries we replace the macroeconomic production function by a production possibility frontier, TFP being the composite effect of efficiency scores and possibility ... See full document

... envelopment analysis (DEA) fits into this tradition of non-parametric analyses in production economics (Ray, 2004, ...one of those mathematical programming techniques, also being the ... See full document

... a cross section of OECD countries we replace the macroeconomic production function by a production possibility frontier, TFP being the composite effect of efficiency scores and possibility ... See full document

... number of competing causes related to the occurrence of an event is modeled by an exponential composed by discrete power series (PS) distribution (Noack, ...model with the PS distribution is very ... See full document

... estimation of cardiovas- cular system time series has not been established (10-12), several advantages and disadvantages regarding para- metric and non-parametric methods have been ...advantages ... See full document

... method of instruction that incorporates basic elements of cognitive learning ...Colleges of pharmacy use PBL to aid anticipated learning outcomes and practice competencies for pharmacy ...purpose ... See full document

... choice of inputs and outputs was limited by ANTT data ...One of the outcomes of the study is, in fact, a recommendation to ANTT to modify its data structure in order to improve the ... See full document

... measured efficiency in broiler production using parametric ...audit of poultry processing plants in southwestern ...houses of Turkey. Results of their studies showed that increasing ... See full document

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... terms of median duration survival, in particular between Norte and ...years of activity, the Norte is the only region registering less than 50% of enterprise survival probability, lagging behind all ... See full document

... Palavras Chave: Níveis de educação (level of education); Educação pós-secundária não superior (post-secondary non tertiary education); Aprendizagem ao longo da vida (life-long[r] ... See full document

... field of study that is an important topic in both the EU and the US [1, ...the non- significant impact of the Portuguese ...a country like the US, where the healthcare cost is very expensive ... See full document

... set of HTML (or DHTML) files with server side processing provided by merging HTML with general programming code ...parts of the decision model as HTML/Javascript forms ...generation of ... See full document

... use of sec- ondary prevention according to mean monthly family income, it would be interesting to investigate the extent to which secondary prevention was being used at the time of the second ... See full document

... number of police officers in a force, and y is the output, for example the number of arrests in a given ...combination of technologies used by A and C are available, and the production possibilities ... See full document

... popularity of the DEA and the BSC approaches, there have been very few studies that have explored their integration for enhanced performance ...objective of this article. In line with what has been ... See full document

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