Journal
OPERATIONS RESEARCH
Volume 66, Issue 1, Pages 282-300Publisher
INFORMS
DOI: 10.1287/opre.2017.1667
Keywords
data envelopment analysis; efficiency; multiple-component technology; secondary education
Funding
- Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia [SFRH/BSAB/1422/2014]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BSAB/1422/2014] Funding Source: FCT
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We develop a nonparametric methodology for assessing the efficiency of decision-making units operating in a production technology with several component processes. The latter is modeled by the new multiple hybrid returns-to-scale (MHRS) technology, formally derived from an explicitly stated set of production axioms. In contrast with the existing models of data envelopment analysis (DEA), the MHRS technology allows the incorporation of component-specific and shared inputs and outputs that represent several proportional (scalable) component production processes as well as nonproportional inputs and outputs. Our approach does not require information about the allocation of shared inputs and outputs to component processes or any assumptions about this allocation. We demonstrate the usefulness of the suggested approach in an application in the context of secondary education and also in a Monte Carlo study based on a simulated data generating process.
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