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Technical Efficiency in the Decentralized Care of the Developmentally Disabled

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  • Dusansky, Richard
  • Wilson, Paul W

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This paper analyzes the technical efficiency of group home care for the developmentally disabled in the Detroit metropolitan area. Linear programming methods are used to construct a production frontier that allows measurement of relative technical efficiency among homes in the sample. A sensitivity analysis is performed to identify influential observations in the data that might result from measurement error that could distort the efficiency measures. A regression analysis is undertaken to examine the effect of various factors on measured efficiency. Policy implications are discussed in the concluding section. Copyright 1994 by MIT Press.

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  • Dusansky, Richard & Wilson, Paul W, 1994. "Technical Efficiency in the Decentralized Care of the Developmentally Disabled," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 76(2), pages 340-345, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:tpr:restat:v:76:y:1994:i:2:p:340-45
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