Identifying how efficient public schools are - that is, the academic performance they can generate with the available inputs - is relevant information for designing public policies to improve education quality. Using a two-stage data envelopment analysis (DEA) and the Malmquist index, this study...

This work highlights the support of some indicators, which are assumed to be resources, namely mobile usage, internet usage, private credit, government education expenditure, and the export of high-technology products, for human capital development. To investigate the efficiency and productivity...