Efficiency in the Community College Sector: Stochastic Frontier Analysis

Autor/inn/en	Agasisti, Tommaso; Belfield, Clive
Titel	Efficiency in the Community College Sector: Stochastic Frontier Analysis
Quelle	In: Tertiary Education and Management, 23 (2017) 3, S.237-259 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1358-3883
DOI	10.1080/13583883.2016.1238956
Schlagwörter	Community Colleges; Efficiency; Scores; Robustness (Statistics); Cost Effectiveness; Regression (Statistics); Equations (Mathematics); Student Characteristics; Least Squares Statistics; Educational Policy; Achievement Rating; Institutional Characteristics; Statistical Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Community college; Community College; Effectiveness; Effektivität; Wirkungsgrad; Widerstandsfähigkeit; Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse; Kosten-Nutzen-Denken; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Equations; Mathematics; Gleichungslehre; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Achievement; Rating; Leistung; Beurteilung; Leistungsbeurteilung; Statistische Analyse
Abstract	This paper estimates technical efficiency scores across the community college sector in the United States. Using stochastic frontier analysis and data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System for 2003-2010, we estimate efficiency scores for 950 community colleges and perform a series of sensitivity tests to check for robustness. We find that community colleges have become more efficient over time, but no evidence of economies of scale. We also find significant variation in efficiency across colleges, with only part of this variation explained by exogenous differences by state and across student characteristics. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01