Evaluating U.S. judicial district prosecutor performance using DEA: are disadvantaged counties more inefficient?
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Data envelopment analysis; Prosecutor offices; D02;All these keywords.
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- D02 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact
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