The reliability of school efficiency measures using data envelopment analysis

Measuring School Performance & Efficiency: Implications for Practice and Research

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 93-118

  Rubenstein, Ross ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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