The impact of local funding on the technical efficiency of Oklahoma schools

Economics Letters

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 31-37

  Adkins, Lee C ^a   Moomaw, Ronald L ^a,b  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

School funding sources; Stochastic production frontier; Technical efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141465172     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1765(03)00161-7     Document Type: Article

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