Resources and Functionings: A New View of Inequality in Australia

Lovell, C. A. Knox; Travers, Peter; Richardson, Sue; Wood, Lisa

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“…According to Lovell et al (1994), normalizing the output distance function by one of the outputs is equivalent to imposing homogeneity of a degree +1. Therefore, Equation (4) can be represented as:…”

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Measuring educational efficiency at student level with parametric stochastic distance functions: an application to Spanish PISA results

Perelman

Santín

2011

Education Economics

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The aim of the present paper is to examine the observed differences in Students’ test performance across public and private‐voucher schools in Spain. For this purpose, we explicitly consider that education is a multi‐input multi‐output production process subject to inefficient behaviors, which can be identified at student level using a parametric stochastic distance function approach. The empirical application of this model, based on Spanish data from the Programme for International Student Assessment implemented by the Organization for Economic Co‐operation and Development in 2003, allows us to identify different aspects of the underlying educational technology. Among other things, the results provide insights into how student background, peer group, school characteristics and personal circumstances interact with educational outputs. Moreover, our findings suggest that, once educational inputs and potential bias due to school choice endogeneity are taken into account, no further unexplained difference remains between students’ efficiency levels across public and private‐voucher schools.public schools, educational efficiency, stochastic frontier, distance function,

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Section: Estimating An Educational Production Function Through Distanmentioning

confidence: 99%

Measuring educational efficiency at student level with parametric stochastic distance functions: an application to Spanish PISA results

Perelman

Santín

2011

Education Economics

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“…Assuming a translog functional form for the parametric distance function with M outputs and K inputs provides several attractive properties including exibility, easy to derive and permit the imposition of homogeneity, which makes it the preferred in the literature (Coelli and Perelman 1999;Lovell et al 1994;Brümmer, Glauben, and Thijssen 2002;Brümmer, Glauben, and Lu 2006).…”

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“…By using linear homogeneity of the output distance function, equation (3) can be transformed into an estimable regression model by normalising the function by one of the outputs (Brümmer, Glauben, and Lu 2006;Brümmer, Glauben, and Thijssen 2002;Coelli and Perelman 1999;Coelli and Perleman 2000;Lovell et al 1994;Orea 2002;O'Donell and Coelli 2005). From Euler's theorem, homogeneity of degree one in output implies:…”

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Provision of environmental output within a multi-output distance function approach

Areal

Tiffin

Balcombe

2012

Ecological Economics

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This paper rede nes technical e ciency by incorporating provision of environmental goods as one of the outputs of the farm within a multi-outptut distance function framework.Permanent and rough grassland area are used as a proxy for the provision of environmental goods. The multi-output distance function approach is used to estimate technical e ciency.A Bayesian procedure involving the use of a Gibbs sampler is used to estimate the farm speci c e ciency as well as the coe cients of the distance function. In addition, a number of explanatory variables for the e ciency were introduced in the analysis and posterior distributions of those were obtained. The methodology is applied to panel data on 215 dairy farms in England and Wales from the Defra Farm Business Survey. Results show that both farm e ciency rankings and determinants of ine ciency change when provision of environmental outputs by farms is incorporated in the e ciency analysis, which may have important political implications.

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“…Other nonaxiomatic approaches in the literature include the fuzzy set approach (Cerioli and Zani 1990;Cheli and Lemmi 1994;Chiappero-Martinetti 2006), the distance function method (Lovell et al 1994;Anderson et al 2005), the information theory approach (Maasoumi 1993;Deutsch and Silber 2005;Maasoumi and Lugo 2008), the inertia approach and factor analysis (Klasen 2000;Sahn and Stifel 2003), and methods from the psychometric literature (Wagle 2005;Di Tommaso 2007;Krishnakumar and Ballon 2008). Batana and Duclos (2008) draw attention to the concern that the arbitrary nature of assumptions involved in choosing poverty thresholds and in aggregating across welfare dimensions and individuals may diminish the robustness of results.…”

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Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

Arndt¹,

McKay

Tarp

2016

Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Resources and Functionings: A New View of Inequality in Australia

Cited by 214 publications

References 8 publications

Measuring educational efficiency at student level with parametric stochastic distance functions: an application to Spanish PISA results

Measuring educational efficiency at student level with parametric stochastic distance functions: an application to Spanish PISA results

Provision of environmental output within a multi-output distance function approach

Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

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