TY - JOUR
T1 - A comparison of public and private schools in Spain using robust nonparametric frontier methods
AU - Cordero, José Manuel
AU - Prior, Diego
AU - Simancas, Rosa
PY - 2016/9/1
Y1 - 2016/9/1
N2 - © 2015, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. This paper uses an innovative approach to evaluate educational performance of Spanish students in PISA 2009. Our purpose is to decompose their overall inefficiency between different components with a special focus on studying the differences between public and state subsidized private schools. We use a technique inspired by the non-parametric free disposal hull and the application of robust order-m models, which allow us to mitigate the influence of outliers and the curse of dimensionality. Subsequently, we adopt a metafrontier framework to assess each student relative to the own group best practice frontier (students in the same school) and to different frontiers constructed from the best practices of different types of schools. The results show that state-subsidised private schools outperform public schools, although the differences between them are significantly reduced once we control for the type of students enrolled in both type of centres.
AB - © 2015, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. This paper uses an innovative approach to evaluate educational performance of Spanish students in PISA 2009. Our purpose is to decompose their overall inefficiency between different components with a special focus on studying the differences between public and state subsidized private schools. We use a technique inspired by the non-parametric free disposal hull and the application of robust order-m models, which allow us to mitigate the influence of outliers and the curse of dimensionality. Subsequently, we adopt a metafrontier framework to assess each student relative to the own group best practice frontier (students in the same school) and to different frontiers constructed from the best practices of different types of schools. The results show that state-subsidised private schools outperform public schools, although the differences between them are significantly reduced once we control for the type of students enrolled in both type of centres.
KW - Education
KW - Efficiency
KW - Free disposal hull
KW - Multilevel modelling
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10100-014-0376-1
DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10100-014-0376-1
M3 - Article
VL - 24
SP - 659
EP - 680
JO - Central European Journal of Operations Research
JF - Central European Journal of Operations Research
SN - 1435-246X
IS - 3
ER -