Higher education institutions' costs and efficiency: Taking the decomposition a further step

Economics of Education Review

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 107-113

  Johnes, Geraint ^a   Johnes, Jill ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Costs; Higher education; Random parameter models; Stochastic frontier

Indexed keywords

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; HIGHER EDUCATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RETURNS TO SCALE; STOCHASTICITY; UNIVERSITY SECTOR;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 57349195534     PISSN: 02727757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2008.02.001     Document Type: Article

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