Evaluating technical efficiency of human capital formation in the Italian university: Evidence from Florence

Statistical Methods and Applications

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 243-270

  Ferrari, Guido ^a   Laureti, Tiziana ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bad output; Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA); Frontier technical efficiency; Production unit; Program Evaluation (PE)

Indexed keywords

EID: 27244445326     PISSN: 16182510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10260-005-0109-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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