We estimate a semi-parametric model of health production process using a two-stage approach for OECD countries. By regressing data envelopment analysis output efficiency scores on non-discretionary variables, both using Tobit analysis and a single and double bootstrap procedure, we show that...

Efficiency of education and health provision in a sample of OECD countries is assessed by means of two alternative non-parametric methodologies: FDH and DEA. The efficiency frontier is estimated using both measures of expenditure and quantity inputs, as a country may well be efficient from a...