Small is not that beautiful after all: Measuring the scale efficiency of Tunisian high schools using a DEA-bootstrap method

Applied Economics

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1109-1120

  Essid, Hédi ^a   Ouellette, Pierre ^b   Vigeant, Stéphane ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c IESEG SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Data envelopment analysis; Optimal school size; Quasi fixed inputs; Returns to scale; Tunisia school efficiency

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAPPING; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RETURNS TO SCALE; SECONDARY EDUCATION;

TUNISIA;

EID: 84857726622     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2011.613795     Document Type: Article

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