An evaluation of the efficiency of Québec's school boards using the Data Envelopment Analysis method

Applied Economics

Volumn 37, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 1643-1653

  Ouellette, Pierre ^a   Vierstraete, Valérie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; EDUCATION; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT;

EID: 24344462263     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840500173247     Document Type: Article

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