Assessing the efficiency of Turkish secondary education: Heterogeneity, centralization, and scale diseconomies

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 35-44

  Davutyan, Nurhan ^a   Demir, Mert ^b   Polat, Sezgin ^c  

^a MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Pensions Monitoring Center   (Turkey)

^c GALATASARAY UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA); Decentralization; Decision rights; Decreasing returns to scale (DRS); Directional distance function; Undesirable outputs

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DECENTRALIZATION; ECONOMETRICS; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; HETEROGENEITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RETURNS TO SCALE; SECONDARY EDUCATION;

EURASIA; TURKEY;

EID: 70350618067     PISSN: 00380121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2009.06.002     Document Type: Article

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