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An Efficiency Analysis of Public and Private Elementary Schools in Dera Ghazi Khan

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  • Aatzaz Hassan

    (Assistant Education Officer, District Education, Punjab School Education Department, Pakistan)

  • Muhammad Ramzan Sheikh

    (Associate Professor, School of Economics, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Pakistan)

  • Rana Zafar Hayat

    (Lecturerin Economics,Department of Economics, Government Civil Lines College, Multan, Pakistan)

  • Neelam Asghar Ali

    (Visiting Lecturer, School of Economics, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Pakistan)

Abstract

The study aims to compute the efficiency scores of the public and private elementary schools and to find out the differences in the efficiency scores, in Dera Ghazi Khan Tehsil, a junction of four provinces of Pakistan. The Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) technique has been used in this study. The CCR results for the public and private schools have been found as 0.73 and 0.74 while the BCC efficiency scores for the public and private schools are recorded as 0.89 and 0.92. The scores calculated via both the models used for the study have given the same results. Private schools are more efficient than their public counterparts. The study, therefore, upholds the dominant paradigm that private schools are more efficient than public schools.

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  • Aatzaz Hassan & Muhammad Ramzan Sheikh & Rana Zafar Hayat & Neelam Asghar Ali, 2022. "An Efficiency Analysis of Public and Private Elementary Schools in Dera Ghazi Khan," Journal of Policy Research (JPR), Research Foundation for Humanity (RFH), vol. 8(3), pages 135-150, September.
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