The efficiency of Australian universities: a data envelopment analysis

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Title: The efficiency of Australian universities: a data envelopment analysis
Author(s): Abbott, Malcolm; Doucouliagos, C.
Abstract: 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.
Publication type: Journal article
Source: Economics of Education Review, Vol. 22, no. 1 (Feb 2003), pp. 89-97
Publication year: 2003
FOR Code(s): 1402 Applied Economics
Keyword(s): Australia; Efficiency; Data analysis; Higher education; Universities
Publisher: Elsevier
ISSN: 0272-7757
Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0272-7757(01)00068-1
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