envelopment analysis (DEA) and the Malmquist index, this study measures the efficiency of public schools in Colombia and their …

recent literature exposes variations in their efficiencies. To gain insights into these differences we split the efficiency … method to measure efficiency, we separate short-term (transient) and long-term (persistent) efficiency, while controlling for … unobserved institution specific heterogeneity. While the first term reflects the efficiency of the individual universities …

This paper studies the effect of merger policies in Russia on university efficiency. We consider the non … efficiency scores of universities are estimated using a bootstrapped DEA non-parametric technique. The efficiency scores were … causal impact of mergers on efficiency levels. We find a positive, statistically significant effect of merger policy on …