Sexton, Thomas R.; Comunale, Christie L.; Gara, Stephen C. - In: Education Finance and Policy 7 (2012) July, pp. 331-359
We propose an efficiency-based mechanism for state funding of public colleges and universities using data envelopment analysis. We describe the philosophy and the mathematics that underlie the approach and apply\break the proposed model to data from 362 U.S. public four-year colleges and...