Non-Parametric Approaches to Education and Health Expenditure Efficiency in OECD Countries
Non-Parametric Approaches to Education and Health Expenditure Efficiency in OECD Countries
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经合组织国家教育和卫生支出效率的非参数方法
DOI：
10.2139/ssrn.498383
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发表时间：
2004
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影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Miguel St. Aubyn
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作者：
António Afonso;Miguel St. Aubyn
我们解决的教育和卫生部门的支出效率的样本经合组织国家采用两种替代的非参数方法：FDH和DEA。这两个领域的公共支出非常重要，因此调查结果对公共部门效率有很大影响。在估计效率边界时，我们同时使用支出和数量投入的度量。我们认为这种办法是有利的，因为一个国家从技术角度来看很可能是有效率的，但如果它使用的投入昂贵，则显得效率低下。各部门和分析方法的有效结果似乎集中在少数核心国家，尽管原因不同：芬兰、日本、韩国和瑞典。
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 concerns public sector efficiency. When estimating the efficiency frontier we use both measures of expenditure and quantity inputs. We believe this approach to be advantageous since a country may well be efficient from a technical point of view but appear as inefficient if the inputs it uses are expensive. Efficient outcomes across sectors and analytical methods seem to cluster around a small number of core countries, even if for different reasons: Finland, Japan, Korea and Sweden.