We address the efficiency of expenditure in education and health sectors for a sample of OECD countries by applying two alternative non-parametric methodologies: FDH and DEA. Those are two areas where public expenditure is of great importance so that findings have strong implications in what...

Public tertiary education systems in the EU Member States are studied by comparing used resources with education and research outputs and outcomes. Efficiency in public tertiary education systems across EU countries plus Japan and the US is assessed with semi-parametric methods and stochastic...

Public expenditure in Portugal has been growing in recent years and approached values close to the EU average. Social expenditure, namely with health and education, increased in relative terms. Also, recent growth in public employment resulted greatly from new hirings in these two sectors....