Assessing the efficiency of public schools using data envelopment analysis and frontier regression

Contemporary Economic Policy

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 321-331

  Ruggiero, John ^b   Vitaliano, Donald F ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

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EID: 22644452426     PISSN: 10743529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1465-7287.1999.tb00685.x     Document Type: Article

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