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Kristof De Witte

Citations

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Working papers

  1. Tijmen Tuinsma & Kristof De Witte & Petr Janský & Miroslav Palanský & Vitezslav Titl, 2023. "Effects of Corporate Transparency on Tax Avoidance: Evidence from Country-by-Country Reporting," Working Papers IES 2023/04, Charles University Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Economic Studies, revised Feb 2023.

    Cited by:

    1. Sarah Godar & Giulia Aliprandi & Tommaso Faccio & Petr Janský & Katia Toledo Ruiz, 2024. "The long way to tax transparency: lessons from the early publishers of country-by-country reports," International Tax and Public Finance, Springer;International Institute of Public Finance, vol. 31(2), pages 593-634, April.

  2. Falco J. Bargagli Stoffi & Kenneth De Beckker & Joana E. Maldonado & Kristof De Witte, 2021. "Assessing Sensitivity of Machine Learning Predictions.A Novel Toolbox with an Application to Financial Literacy," Papers 2102.04382, arXiv.org.

    Cited by:

    1. Ginevra Buratti & Alessio D'Ignazio, 2024. "Improving the effectiveness of financial education programs. A targeting approach," Journal of Consumer Affairs, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 58(2), pages 451-485, June.
    2. Falco J. Bargagli-Stoffi & Fabio Incerti & Massimo Riccaboni & Armando Rungi, 2023. "Machine Learning for Zombie Hunting: Predicting Distress from Firms' Accounts and Missing Values," Papers 2306.08165, arXiv.org.
    3. Ginevra Buratti & Alessio D'Ignazio, 2023. "Improving the effectiveness of financial education programs. A targeting approach," Questioni di Economia e Finanza (Occasional Papers) 765, Bank of Italy, Economic Research and International Relations Area.

  3. Giovanna D'Inverno & Wim Moesen & Kristof De Witte, 2020. "Local government size and service level provision. Evidence from conditional non-parametric analysis," Working Papers of LEER - Leuven Economics of Education Research 657314, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), LEER - Leuven Economics of Education Research.

    Cited by:

    1. Gissur Ó Erlingsson & Jonas Klarin & Eva Mörk, 2024. "Does size matter? Evidence from municipal splits," Journal of Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 64(3), pages 700-731, June.
    2. Guo, Wen & Yang, Bo & Ji, Jiong & Liu, Xiaorui, 2023. "Abundance of natural resources, government scale and green economic growth: An empirical study on urban resource curse," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 87(PA).
    3. Kristof De Witte & Panagiotis Takis ILIOPOULOS, 2023. "The Expenditure Composition and Trade-offs in Local Government Budgets," Working Papers of LEER - Leuven Economics of Education Research 746856, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), LEER - Leuven Economics of Education Research.
    4. Compagnucci, Fabiano & Morettini, Gabriele, 2024. "Inner areas matter: A place-sensitive approach for the identification of the Daily Life Spaces in the Italian Abruzzo region," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 93(C).

  4. Giovanna D'Inverno & Mike Smet & Kristof De Witte, 2020. "Impact evaluation in a multi-input multi-output setting: Evidence on the effect of additional resources for schools," Working Papers of LEER - Leuven Economics of Education Research 659615, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), LEER - Leuven Economics of Education Research.

    Cited by:

    1. Stumbrienė, Dovilė & Želvys, Rimantas & Žilinskas, Julius & Dukynaitė, Rita & Jakaitienė, Audronė, 2022. "Efficiency and effectiveness analysis based on educational inclusion and fairness of European countries," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 82(PB).
    2. Badunenko, Oleg & D’Inverno, Giovanna & De Witte, Kristof, 2023. "On distinguishing the direct causal effect of an intervention from its efficiency-enhancing effects," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 310(1), pages 432-447.
    3. Fukuyama, Hirofumi & Tsionas, Mike & Tan, Yong, 2023. "Dynamic network data envelopment analysis with a sequential structure and behavioural-causal analysis: Application to the Chinese banking industry," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 307(3), pages 1360-1373.
    4. Mahmood Mehdiloo & Jafar Sadeghi & Kristiaan Kerstens, 2024. "Top Down Axiomatic Modeling of Metatechnologies and Evaluating Directional Economic Efficiency," Working Papers 2024-EQM-03, IESEG School of Management.

  5. Giovanna D'Inverno & Kristof De Witte, 2020. "Service level provision in municipalities: a flexible directional distance composite indicator," Working Papers of LEER - Leuven Economics of Education Research 656607, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), LEER - Leuven Economics of Education Research.

    Cited by:

    1. Laura Carosi & Ana Camanho & Giovanna D’Inverno & Kristof Witte & Rossana Riccardi, 2020. "Preface to the special issue on performance measurement and efficiency analysis—theory and practice," Decisions in Economics and Finance, Springer;Associazione per la Matematica, vol. 43(2), pages 409-412, December.
    2. Vilarinho, Hermilio & D’Inverno, Giovanna & Nóvoa, Henriqueta & Camanho, Ana S., 2023. "The measurement of asset management performance of water companies," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 87(PA).
    3. Vidoli, F.; & Fusco, E.; & Pignataro, G.; & Guccio, C.;, 2023. "Multi-directional Robust Benefit of the Doubt model: a comprehensive measure for the quality of health care in OECD countries," Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) Working Papers 23/14, HEDG, c/o Department of Economics, University of York.
    4. Titl, Vitezslav & De Witte, Kristof, 2022. "How politics influence public good provision," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 81(C).
    5. D'Inverno, Giovanna & Moesen, Wim & De Witte, Kristof, 2022. "Local government size and service level provision. Evidence from conditional non-parametric analysis," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 81(C).
    6. Vitezslav Titl & Kristof De Witte & Benny Geys, 2019. "Political donations, public procurement and government efficiency," CESifo Working Paper Series 7591, CESifo.
    7. José Antonio, Palomero-González & Vicent, Almenar-Llongo & Ramón, Fuentes-Pascual, 2022. "A composite indicator index as a proxy for measuring the quality of water supply as perceived by users for urban water services," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 174(C).
    8. Víctor Giménez & Diego Prior & Claudio Thieme & Emili Tortosa-Ausina, 2021. "International comparisons of the COVID-19 pandemic management: What can be learned from activity analysis techniques?," Working Papers 2021/12, Economics Department, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón (Spain).
    9. Carina Steckenleiter & Michael Lechner & Tim Pawlowski & Ute Schüttoff, 2023. "Do local expenditures on sports facilities affect sports participation?," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 61(4), pages 1103-1128, October.
    10. Vidoli, Francesco & Auteri, Monica & Marinuzzi, Giorgia & Tortorella, Walter, 2023. "Spatial interdependence in cost efficiency and local government optimal size: The case of Italian municipalities," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 86(C).
    11. D’Inverno, Giovanna & Carosi, Laura & Romano, Giulia, 2021. "Environmental sustainability and service quality beyond economic and financial indicators: A performance evaluation of Italian water utilities," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 75(C).
    12. D’Inverno, Giovanna & Vidoli, Francesco & De Witte, Kristof, 2023. "Sustainable budgeting and financial balance: Which lever will you pull?," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 309(2), pages 857-871.
    13. Mosnier, Claire & Boukhriss, Sanae & Minviel, Jean-Joseph, 2023. "Does pig production improves cattle farm sustainability in the French massif central? A hierarchical constrained directional benefit-of-the-doubt approach," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 210(C).
    14. Matheus Pereira Libório & Lívia Maria Leite Silva & Petr Iakovlevitch Ekel & Letícia Ribeiro Figueiredo & Patrícia Bernardes, 2022. "Consensus-Based Sub-Indicator Weighting Approach: Constructing Composite Indicators Compatible with Expert Opinion," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 164(3), pages 1073-1099, December.
    15. Kristof De Witte & Panagiotis Takis ILIOPOULOS, 2023. "The Expenditure Composition and Trade-offs in Local Government Budgets," Working Papers of LEER - Leuven Economics of Education Research 746856, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), LEER - Leuven Economics of Education Research.
    16. Vidoli, F. & Fusco, E. & Pignataro, G. & Guccio, C., 2024. "Multi-directional Robust Benefit of the Doubt model: An application to the measurement of the quality of acute care services in OECD countries," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 93(C).
    17. Vilarinho, Hermilio & Pereira, Miguel Alves & D’Inverno, Giovanna & Nóvoa, Henriqueta & Camanho, Ana S., 2024. "Water Utility Service Quality Index: A customer-centred approach for assessing the quality of service in the water sector," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 92(C).
    18. Zhou, Yi & Zhou, Wenji & Wei, Chu, 2023. "Environmental performance of the Chinese cement enterprise: An empirical analysis using a text-based directional vector," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 125(C).
    19. Vilarinho, Hermilio & D’Inverno, Giovanna & Nóvoa, Henriqueta & Camanho, Ana S., 2023. "Performance analytics for regulation in retail water utilities: Guiding asset management by identifying peers and targets," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. 82(C).
    20. Jiménez-Fernández, Eduardo & Sánchez, Angeles & Ortega-Pérez, Mario, 2022. "Dealing with weighting scheme in composite indicators: An unsupervised distance-machine learning proposal for quantitative data," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 83(C).
    21. Claudio Thieme & Víctor Giménez & Diego Prior & Emili Tortosa-Ausina, 2023. "Health vs. Wealth: A Cross-country Analysis of Managerial Effectiveness of the COVID-19," Working Papers 2023/10, Economics Department, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón (Spain).

  6. Vitezslav Titl & Kristof De Witte & Benny Geys, 2019. "Political donations, public procurement and government efficiency," CESifo Working Paper Series 7591, CESifo.

    Cited by:

    1. Xie, Rui & Zhang, Jiahuan & Tang, Chuan, 2023. "Political connection and water pollution: New evidence from Chinese listed firms," Resource and Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 74(C).
    2. Titl, Vitezslav & De Witte, Kristof, 2022. "How politics influence public good provision," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 81(C).
    3. Vitezslav Titl & Deni Mazrekaj & Fritz Schiltz, 2024. "Identifying Politically Connected Firms: A Machine Learning Approach," Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Department of Economics, University of Oxford, vol. 86(1), pages 137-155, February.
    4. Lisciandra, Maurizio & Milani, Riccardo & Millemaci, Emanuele, 2022. "A corruption risk indicator for public procurement," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 73(C).

  7. Kaat Iterbeke & Kristof De Witte & Koen Declercq & Wouter Schelfhout, 2019. "The Effect of Ability Matching and Differentiated Instruction in Financial Literacy Education. Evidence from Two Randomised Control Trials," CESifo Working Paper Series 7997, CESifo.

    Cited by:

    1. Amagir, Aisa & van den Brink, Henriëtte Maassen & Groot, Wim & Wilschut, Arie, 2022. "SaveWise: The impact of a real-life financial education program for ninth grade students in the Netherlands," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, Elsevier, vol. 33(C).
    2. Tim Kaiser & Lukas Menkhoff, 2022. "Active Learning Improves Financial Education: Experimental Evidence from Uganda," CESifo Working Paper Series 9661, CESifo.
    3. Maldonado, Joana Elisa & De Witte, Kristof, 2021. "The impact of information provision to parents: Experimental evidence on student outcomes," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, Elsevier, vol. 31(C).
    4. Joana Elisa Maldonado & Kristof De Witte & Koen Declercq, 2022. "The effects of parental involvement in homework: two randomised controlled trials in financial education," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 62(3), pages 1439-1464, March.
    5. De Beckker, Kenneth & De Witte, Kristof & Van Campenhout, Geert, 2021. "The effect of financial education on students’ consumer choices: Evidence from a randomized experiment," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 188(C), pages 962-976.
    6. Rodriguez-Raga, Santiago & Martinez-Camelo, Natalia, 2022. "Game, guide or website for financial education improvement: Evidence from an experiment in Colombian schools," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, Elsevier, vol. 33(C).
    7. Pitthan, Francisco & De Witte, Kristof, 2024. "Do heuristics matter for financial literacy? The impact of better heuristics awareness to financial literacy," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 67(PB).

  8. Fritz Schiltz & Paolo Sestito & Tommaso Agasisti & Kristof De Witte, 2019. "The added value of more accurate predictions for school rankings," Temi di discussione (Economic working papers) 1209, Bank of Italy, Economic Research and International Relations Area.

    Cited by:

    1. Francesco Decarolis & Cristina Giorgiantonio, 2020. "Corruption red flags in public procurement: new evidence from Italian calls for tenders," Questioni di Economia e Finanza (Occasional Papers) 544, Bank of Italy, Economic Research and International Relations Area.
    2. Carmen Aina & Massimiliano Bratti & Enrico Lippo, 2021. "Ranking high schools using university student performance in Italy," Economia Politica: Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics, Springer;Fondazione Edison, vol. 38(1), pages 293-321, April.
    3. Xiaopeng Wu & Tianshu Xu & Jincheng Zhou, 2022. "Sustainability of Evaluation: The Origin and Development of Value-Added Evaluation from the Global Perspective," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(23), pages 1-13, November.

  9. Deni Mazrekaj & Kristof De Witte & Sarah Vansteenkiste, 2018. "Labour market consequences of a high school diploma," Working Papers of LEER - Leuven Economics of Education Research 628571, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), LEER - Leuven Economics of Education Research.

    Cited by:

    1. Fritz Schiltz & Kristof De Witte, 2021. "Sugar rush or sugar crash? Experimental evidence on the impact of sugary drinks in the classroom," Working Papers of LEER - Leuven Economics of Education Research 681648, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), LEER - Leuven Economics of Education Research.

  10. Fritz Schiltz & Deni Mazrekaj & Daniel Horn & Kristof De Witte, 2018. "Does It Matter When Your Smartest Peers Leave Your Class? Evidence from Hungary," Budapest Working Papers on the Labour Market 1804, Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies.

    Cited by:

    1. Fritz Schiltz & Kristof De Witte, 2021. "Sugar rush or sugar crash? Experimental evidence on the impact of sugary drinks in the classroom," Working Papers of LEER - Leuven Economics of Education Research 681648, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), LEER - Leuven Economics of Education Research.
    2. Schnepf, Sylke V. & Bastianelli, Elena & Blaskó, Zsuzsa, 2020. "Are Universities Important for Explaining Unequal Participation in Student Mobility? A Comparison between Germany, Hungary, Italy and the UK," IZA Discussion Papers 13157, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).

  11. Kristof De Witte & Fritz Schiltz, 2017. "Measuring and explaining organizational effectiveness of school districts: evidence from a robust and conditional Benefit-of-the-Doubt approach," Working Papers of LEER - Leuven Economics of Education Research 605791, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), LEER - Leuven Economics of Education Research.

    Cited by:

    1. Dr. Nuwatuhaire Benard & Dr. Rwabutogo Zogeye Marcel & Janan Mubehamwe & Dr. Phanual Murenzi, 2023. "Assessing the Relationship between Female Head Teachers’ Supportive Leadership Behaviours and Organizational Effectiveness of Secondary Schools in Rwanda, Nyagatare District," International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS), vol. 7(11), pages 1292-1306, November.
    2. Su, Weihua & Chen, Sibo & Zhang, Chonghui & Li, Kevin W., 2023. "A subgroup dominance-based benefit of the doubt method for addressing rank reversals: A case study of the human development index in Europe," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 307(3), pages 1299-1317.
    3. Giovanna D'Inverno & Kristof De Witte, 2020. "Service level provision in municipalities: a flexible directional distance composite indicator," Working Papers of LEER - Leuven Economics of Education Research 656607, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), LEER - Leuven Economics of Education Research.
    4. Stumbrienė, Dovilė & Želvys, Rimantas & Žilinskas, Julius & Dukynaitė, Rita & Jakaitienė, Audronė, 2022. "Efficiency and effectiveness analysis based on educational inclusion and fairness of European countries," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 82(PB).
    5. Vilarinho, Hermilio & D’Inverno, Giovanna & Nóvoa, Henriqueta & Camanho, Ana S., 2023. "The measurement of asset management performance of water companies," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 87(PA).
    6. Tommaso Agasisti & Ekaterina Shibanova, 2020. "Autonomy, Performance And Efficiency: An Empirical Analysis Of Russian Universities 2014-2018," HSE Working papers WP BRP 224/EC/2020, National Research University Higher School of Economics.
    7. Ishizaka, Alessio & Resce, Giuliano, 2021. "Best-Worst PROMETHEE method for evaluating school performance in the OECD's PISA project," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 73(C).
    8. Pereira, Miguel Alves & Vilarinho, Hermilio & D’Inverno, Giovanna & Camanho, Ana S., 2023. "A regulatory robust conditional approach to measuring the efficiency of wholesale water supply and wastewater treatment services," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. 83(C).
    9. Víctor Giménez & Diego Prior & Claudio Thieme & Emili Tortosa-Ausina, 2021. "International comparisons of the COVID-19 pandemic management: What can be learned from activity analysis techniques?," Working Papers 2021/12, Economics Department, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón (Spain).
    10. Camanho, Ana S. & Stumbriene, Dovile & Barbosa, Flávia & Jakaitiene, Audrone, 2023. "The assessment of performance trends and convergence in education and training systems of European countries," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 305(1), pages 356-372.
    11. Carina Steckenleiter & Michael Lechner & Tim Pawlowski & Ute Schüttoff, 2023. "Do local expenditures on sports facilities affect sports participation?," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 61(4), pages 1103-1128, October.
    12. D’Inverno, Giovanna & Carosi, Laura & Romano, Giulia, 2021. "Environmental sustainability and service quality beyond economic and financial indicators: A performance evaluation of Italian water utilities," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 75(C).
    13. Marc Aliana & Diego Prior & Emili Tortosa-Ausina, 2024. "Assessing the impact of environmental factors on emergency healthcare quality: Implications for budget allocation," Working Papers 2024/04, Economics Department, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón (Spain).
    14. Alda A. Henriques & Milton Fontes & Ana S. Camanho & Giovanna D’Inverno & Pedro Amorim & Jaime Gabriel Silva, 2022. "Performance evaluation of problematic samples: a robust nonparametric approach for wastewater treatment plants," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 315(1), pages 193-220, August.
    15. Giuseppe Coco & Raffaele Lagravinese & Giuliano Resce, 2020. "Beyond the weights: a multicriteria approach to evaluate inequality in education," The Journal of Economic Inequality, Springer;Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, vol. 18(4), pages 469-489, December.
    16. Camanho, Ana S. & Varriale, Luisa & Barbosa, Flávia & Sobral, Thiago, 2021. "Performance assessment of upper secondary schools in Italian regions using a circular pseudo-Malmquist index," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 289(3), pages 1188-1208.
    17. López-Torres, Laura & Johnes, Jill & Elliott, Caroline & Polo, Cristina, 2021. "The effects of competition and collaboration on efficiency in the UK independent school sector," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 96(C), pages 40-53.
    18. Gong, Chengzhu & Gong, Nianjiao & Qi, Rui & Yu, Shiwei, 2020. "Assessment of natural gas supply security in Asia Pacific: Composite indicators with compromise Benefit-of-the-Doubt weights," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 67(C).
    19. Vilarinho, Hermilio & D’Inverno, Giovanna & Nóvoa, Henriqueta & Camanho, Ana S., 2023. "Performance analytics for regulation in retail water utilities: Guiding asset management by identifying peers and targets," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. 82(C).
    20. Fritz Schiltz & Kristof Witte & Deni Mazrekaj, 2020. "Managerial efficiency and efficiency differentials in adult education: a conditional and bias-corrected efficiency analysis," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 288(2), pages 529-546, May.

  12. Minviel, Jean Joseph & De Witte, Kristof, 2016. "The influence of public subsidies on farm technical efficiency: A robust conditional nonparametric approach," Working Papers 250207, Institut National de la recherche Agronomique (INRA), Departement Sciences Sociales, Agriculture et Alimentation, Espace et Environnement (SAE2).

    Cited by:

    1. Luca Romagnoli & Vincenzo Giaccio & Luigi Mastronardi & Maria Bonaventura Forleo, 2021. "Highlighting the Drivers of Italian Diversified Farms Efficiency: A Two-Stage DEA-Panel Tobit Analysis," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(23), pages 1-16, November.
    2. Nicola GALLUZZO, 2019. "An Assessment Of Rurality In Italian Farms And In Their Specialization Using A Quantitative Approach," Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Institute of Agricultural Economics, vol. 16(1), pages 39-51.
    3. Badin, Luiza & Daraio, Cinzia & Simar, Leopold, 2018. "A Bootstrap Approach for Bandwidth Selection in Estimating Conditional Efficiency Measures," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2018007, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    4. Lien, Gudbrand & Kumbhakar, Subal C. & Alem, Habtamu, 2018. "Endogeneity, heterogeneity, and determinants of inefficiency in Norwegian crop-producing farms," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 201(C), pages 53-61.
    5. Daraio, Cinzia & Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul W., 2021. "Quality as a latent heterogeneity factor in the efficiency of universities," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 99(C).
    6. Bonfiglio, Andrea & Arzeni, Andrea & Bodini, Antonella, 2017. "Assessing eco-efficiency of arable farms in rural areas," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 151(C), pages 114-125.
    7. Daraio, Cinzia & Simar, Leopold & Wilson, Paul, 2019. "Quality and its impact on efficiency," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2019004, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    8. Tuan Nguyen-Anh & Chinh Hoang-Duc & Tuyen Tiet & Phu Nguyen-Van & Nguyen To-The, 2022. "Composite effects of human, natural and social capitals on sustainable food-crop farming in Sub-Saharan Africa," Post-Print hal-03927534, HAL.
    9. Ayouba, Kassoum & Boussemart, Jean-Philippe & Vigeant, Stéphane, . "The impact of single farm payments on technical inefficiency of French crop farms," Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), vol. 98(01/2).
    10. Pia Nilsson & Sofia Wixe, 2022. "Assessing long-term effects of CAP investment support on indicators of farm performance," European Review of Agricultural Economics, Oxford University Press and the European Agricultural and Applied Economics Publications Foundation, vol. 49(4), pages 760-795.
    11. Sebastian Lakner & Stefan Kirchweger & Daniel Hoop & Bernhard Brümmer & Jochen Kantelhardt, 2018. "The Effects of Diversification Activities on the Technical Efficiency of Organic Farms in Switzerland, Austria, and Southern Germany," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(4), pages 1-18, April.
    12. Faten Ben Bouheni & Hassan Obeid & Elena Margarint, 2022. "Nonperforming loan of European Islamic banks over the economic cycle," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 313(2), pages 773-808, June.
    13. Cinzia Daraio & Leopold Simar & Paul W. Wilson, 2018. "Fast and Efficient Computation of Directional Distance Estimators," LEM Papers Series 2018/21, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy.
    14. Nicola Galluzzo, 2021. "Estimation of the impact of CAP subsidies as environmental variables on Romanian farms," Economia agro-alimentare, FrancoAngeli Editore, vol. 23(3), pages 1-24.
    15. Khafagy, Amr & Vigani, Mauro, 2022. "Technical change and the Common Agricultural Policy," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 109(C).
    16. Maria Martinez Cillero & Fiona Thorne & Michael Wallace & James Breen & Thia Hennessy, 2018. "The Effects of Direct Payments on Technical Efficiency of Irish Beef Farms: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis," Journal of Agricultural Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 69(3), pages 669-687, September.
    17. Baležentis, Tomas & Sun, Kai, 2020. "Measurement of technical inefficiency and total factor productivity growth: A semiparametric stochastic input distance frontier approach and the case of Lithuanian dairy farms," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 285(3), pages 1174-1188.
    18. Salesi, Vinolia Kilinaivoni & Kan Tsui, Wai Hong & Fu, Xiaowen & Gilbey, Andrew, 2022. "Strategies for South Pacific Region to address future pandemics: Implications for the aviation and tourism sectors based on a systematic literature review (2010–2021)," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 125(C), pages 107-126.
    19. Koiry, Subrata & Huang, Wei, 2023. "Do ecological protection approaches affect total factor productivity change of cropland production in Sweden?," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 209(C).
    20. Laure Latruffe & K Hervé Dakpo & Yann Desjeux & Giffona Justinia Hanitravelo, 2017. "Effect of subsidies on technical efficiency excluding or including environmental outputs: An illustration with a sample of farms in the European Union," Working Papers SMART 17-11, INRAE UMR SMART.
    21. Bonfiglio, Andrea & Henke, Roberto & Pierangeli, Fabio & D’Andrea, Maria Rosaria Pupo, 2018. "Direct payments and competitiveness. Assessing redistributive effects of internal convergence in Italy," 162nd Seminar, April 26-27, 2018, Budapest, Hungary 271955, European Association of Agricultural Economists.
    22. Mariarosaria Agostino & Ercan Enzo Comert & Federica Demaria & Sabrina Ruberto, 2024. "What kinds of subsidies affect technical efficiency? The case of Italian dairy farms," Agribusiness, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 40(1), pages 116-138, January.
    23. Artur Wilczynski & Ewa Koloszycz & Michal Switlyk, 2020. "Technical Efficiency of Dairy Farms: An Empirical Study of Producers in Poland," European Research Studies Journal, European Research Studies Journal, vol. 0(1), pages 117-127.
    24. Sushil Gupta & Hossein Rikhtehgar Berenji & Manish Shukla & Nagesh N. Murthy, 2023. "Opportunities in farming research from an operations management perspective," Production and Operations Management, Production and Operations Management Society, vol. 32(6), pages 1577-1596, June.
    25. Ahimbisibwe, Vianny & Zhunusova, Eliza & Kassa, Habtemariam & Günter, Sven, 2024. "Technical efficiency drivers of farmer-led restoration strategies, and how substantial is the unrealised potential for farm output?," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 213(C).
    26. Hyonyong Kang & Dong Hee Suh, 2023. "Exploring the Dynamic Effects of Agricultural Subsidies on Food Loss: Implications for Sustainable Food Security," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(4), pages 1-11, February.
    27. Emmanuel Paroissien & Laure Latruffe & Laurent Piet, 2021. "Early exit from business, performance and neighbours’ influence: a study of farmers in France [Effects of differing farm policies on farm structure and dynamics]," European Review of Agricultural Economics, Oxford University Press and the European Agricultural and Applied Economics Publications Foundation, vol. 48(5), pages 1132-1161.
    28. Jakub Staniszewski & Michał Borychowski, 2020. "The impact of the subsidies on efficiency of different sized farms. Case study of the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union," Agricultural Economics, Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences, vol. 66(8), pages 373-380.
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    111. Masci, Chiara & De Witte, Kristof & Agasisti, Tommaso, 2018. "The influence of school size, principal characteristics and school management practices on educational performance: An efficiency analysis of Italian students attending middle schools," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 61(C), pages 52-69.
    112. Mayerle, Sérgio F. & Rodrigues, Hidelbrando F. & Neiva de Figueiredo, João & De Genaro Chiroli, Daiane M., 2022. "Optimal student/school/class/teacher/classroom matching to support efficient public school system resource allocation," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 83(C).
    113. Melo-Becerra, Ligia Alba & Hahn-De-Castro, Lucas Wilfried & Ariza, Dalma Sofía & Carmona, Cristian Oswaldo, 2020. "Efficiency of local public education in a decentralized context," International Journal of Educational Development, Elsevier, vol. 76(C).
    114. Gabriella Sicilia & Rosa Simancas, 2023. "Eficiencia y equidad educativa en España: un análisis comparativo a nivel regional," Hacienda Pública Española / Review of Public Economics, IEF, vol. 245(2), pages 7-33, June.
    115. Fritz Schiltz & Kristof Witte & Deni Mazrekaj, 2020. "Managerial efficiency and efficiency differentials in adult education: a conditional and bias-corrected efficiency analysis," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 288(2), pages 529-546, May.
    116. Giorgia Zotti, 2024. "Regional Differences in Italian School Efficiency: A Conditional DEA Approach," SERIES 05-2024, Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza - Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro", revised Nov 2024.
    117. Sarbjeet Kaur & Gurcharan Singh, 2020. "Financial Comparative Analysis of State Public Universities of Punjab," International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, Econjournals, vol. 10(5), pages 140-144.
    118. Yan Xia & Jianxin You & Xiumeng Feng & Yingjie Xu & Hui Feng, 2023. "Clustering Analysis of Classified Performance Evaluation of Higher Education in Shanghai Based on Topsis Model," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(8), pages 1-18, April.
    119. Afrasiabi, Ahmadreza & Chalmardi, Mazyar Kaboli & Balezentis, Tomas, 2022. "A novel hybrid evaluation framework for public organizations based on employees’ performance factors," Evaluation and Program Planning, Elsevier, vol. 91(C).
    120. Barra, Cristian & Lagravinese, Raffaele & Zotti, Roberto, 2018. "Does econometric methodology matter to rank universities? An analysis of Italian higher education system," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 62(C), pages 104-120.
    121. Yahia, F.B. & Essid, H., 2019. "Determinants of Tunisian Schools’ Efficiency: A DEA-Tobit Approach," Journal of Applied Management and Investments, Department of Business Administration and Corporate Security, International Humanitarian University, vol. 8(1), pages 44-56, February.
    122. Jorge Calero & Inés P. Murillo Huertas & José L. Raymond, 2021. "Efficiency in the transformation of schooling into competences: A cross‐country analysis using PIAAC data," Bulletin of Economic Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 73(2), pages 252-275, April.
    123. Martínez-Campillo, Almudena & Fernández-Santos, Yolanda, 2020. "The impact of the economic crisis on the (in)efficiency of public Higher Education institutions in Southern Europe: The case of Spanish universities," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 71(C).
    124. Ryan C Taylor & Xiaofan Liang & Manfred D Laubichler & Geoffrey B West & Christopher P Kempes & Marion Dumas, 2021. "Systematic shifts in scaling behavior based on organizational strategy in universities," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 16(10), pages 1-21, October.
    125. Lutz Bornmann & Sabine Gralka & Félix de Moya Anegón & Klaus Wohlrabe, 2020. "Efficiency of Universities and Research-Focused Institutions Worldwide: An Empirical DEA Investigation Based on Institutional Publication Numbers and Estimated Academic Staff Numbers," CESifo Working Paper Series 8157, CESifo.
    126. Heinz Ahn & Marcel Clermont & Julia Langner, 2022. "The impact of selected input and output factors on measuring research efficiency of university research fields: insights from a purpose-, field-, and method-specific perspective," Journal of Business Economics, Springer, vol. 92(8), pages 1303-1335, October.
    127. Zhang, Chonghui & Jiang, Nanyue & Su, Tiantian & Chen, Ji & Streimikiene, Dalia & Balezentis, Tomas, 2022. "Spreading knowledge and technology: Research efficiency at universities based on the three-stage MCDM-NRSDEA method with bootstrapping," Technology in Society, Elsevier, vol. 68(C).
    128. Tommaso Agasisti & Ralph Hippe & Giuseppe Munda, 2017. "Efficiency of investment in compulsory education: empirical analyses in Europe," JRC Research Reports JRC106678, Joint Research Centre.
    129. Víctor Giménez & Claudio Thieme & Diego Prior & Emili Tortosa-Ausina, 2017. "An international comparison of educational systems: a temporal analysis in presence of bad outputs," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 47(1), pages 83-101, February.
    130. Manuel Salas‐Velasco, 2020. "Assessing the performance of Spanish secondary education institutions: Distinguishing between transient and persistent inefficiency, separated from heterogeneity," Manchester School, University of Manchester, vol. 88(4), pages 531-555, July.
    131. Aparicio, Juan & Santín, Daniel, 2022. "A New Malmquist Index Based on a Standard Technology for Measuring Total Factor Productivity Changes," MPRA Paper 114467, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    132. Lori Taylor & Shawna Grosskopf & Kathy Hayes & Laura Razzolini, 2023. "The role of poverty measurements in achieving educational equity through school finance reform," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 60(2), pages 109-127, October.
    133. Sabine Gralka & Klaus Wohlrabe & Lutz Bornmann, 2018. "How to Measure Research Efficiency in Higher Education? Research Grants vs. Publication Output," CESifo Working Paper Series 7055, CESifo.
    134. Cossani, Gianfranco & Codoceo, Loreto & Cáceres, Hernán & Tabilo, Jorge, 2022. "Technical efficiency in Chile’s higher education system: A comparison of rankings and accreditation," Evaluation and Program Planning, Elsevier, vol. 92(C).

  15. Kristof De Witte & Benny Geys, 2015. "Strategic Housing Policy, Migration and Sorting around Population Thresholds," CESifo Working Paper Series 5639, CESifo.

    Cited by:

    1. Monika Köppl-Turyna & Hans Pitlik, 2016. "Do Equalisation Payments Affect Subnational Borrowing? Evidence From Regression Discontinuity," WIFO Working Papers 528, WIFO.
    2. Eggers, Andrew C. & Freier, Ronny & Grembi, Veronica & Nannicini, Tommaso, 2015. "Regression Discontinuity Designs Based on Population Thresholds: Pitfalls and Solutions," IZA Discussion Papers 9553, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    3. Foremny, Dirk & Jofre-Monseny, Jordi & Solé-Ollé, Albert, 2017. "‘Ghost citizens': Using notches to identify manipulation of population-based grants," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 154(C), pages 49-66.

  16. Asatryan, Zareh & De Witte, Kristof, 2014. "Direct democracy and local government efficiency," ZEW Discussion Papers 14-017, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research.

    Cited by:

    1. Lockwood, Ben & Porcelli, Francesco & Redoano, Michela & Bracco, Emanuele & Liberini, Federica & Sgroi, Daniel, 2020. "The Effects of Social Capital on Government Performance and Turnover: Theory and Evidence from Italian Municipalities," The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS) 1284, University of Warwick, Department of Economics.
    2. Giovanna D'Inverno & Kristof De Witte, 2020. "Service level provision in municipalities: a flexible directional distance composite indicator," Working Papers of LEER - Leuven Economics of Education Research 656607, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), LEER - Leuven Economics of Education Research.
    3. Jose M. Cordero & Cristina Polo & Nickolaos G. Tzeremes, 2020. "Evaluating the efficiency of municipalities in the presence of unobserved heterogeneity," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 53(3), pages 377-390, June.
    4. Zareh Asatryan, 2016. "The indirect effects of direct democracy: local government size and non-budgetary voter initiatives in Germany," International Tax and Public Finance, Springer;International Institute of Public Finance, vol. 23(3), pages 580-601, June.
    5. Asatryan, Zareh & Heinemann, Friedrich & Yeter, Mustafa & Rubio, Eulalia & Rinaldi, David & Zuleeg, Fabian, 2016. "Public sector reform: How the EU budget is used to encourage it. Study," ZEW Expertises, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research, number 147039, March.
    6. Alexandra Lavinia Horobeț & Irina Mnohoghitnei & Emanuela Marinela Luminița Zlatea & Alexandra Smedoiu-Popoviciu, 2023. "Determinants of E-Government Use in the European Union: An Empirical Analysis," Societies, MDPI, vol. 13(6), pages 1-17, June.
    7. Titl, Vitezslav & De Witte, Kristof, 2022. "How politics influence public good provision," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 81(C).
    8. Khairudin & Rosmiati Tarmizi & Indrayenti & Aminah & Kamaruzzaman Muhammad*, 2018. "Financial Performance of Local Government and Social Welfare: The Case in Indonesia," The Journal of Social Sciences Research, Academic Research Publishing Group, pages 1035-1039:5.
    9. Asatryan, Zareh & Baskaran, Thushyanthan & Heinemann, Friedrich, 2017. "The effect of direct democracy on the level and structure of local taxes," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 65(C), pages 38-55.
    10. Yang, Suyeon & Park, Sangchan, 2020. "The effects of renewable energy financial incentive policy and democratic governance on renewable energy aid effectiveness," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 145(C).
    11. Asatryan, Zareh & Heinemann, Friedrich & Pitlik, Hans, 2015. "Reforming the public administration: The role of crisis and the power of bureaucracy," ZEW Discussion Papers 15-049, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research.
    12. Enrique J. Buch‐Gómez & Roberto Cabaleiro‐Casal, 2020. "Turnout, political strength, and cost efficiency in Spanish municipalities of the autonomous region of Galicia: Evidence from an alternative stochastic frontier approach," Papers in Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 99(3), pages 533-553, June.
    13. Vitezslav Titl & Kristof De Witte & Benny Geys, 2019. "Political donations, public procurement and government efficiency," CESifo Working Paper Series 7591, CESifo.
    14. Chung-wen Chen & Hsiu-Huei Yu & Kristine Velasquez Tuliao & Aditya Simha & Yi-Ying Chang, 2021. "Supervisors’ Value Orientations and Ethics: A Cross-National Analysis," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 170(1), pages 167-180, April.
    15. Tsovinar J. Karapetyan & Arpenik H. Muradyan & Vanine A. Yeranosyan & Erik M. Grigoryan & Samson M. Petrosyan, 2023. "The determinants of population satisfaction from local authorities' activities: Evidence from Armenia," Regional Science Policy & Practice, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 15(9), pages 2319-2341, December.
    16. Benoît Le Maux, 2018. "On the Necessary and Sufficient Condition for Increasing Direct Participation Rights in Democracies: Comment on “Proposals for a Democracy of the Future” by Bruno S. Frey," Post-Print halshs-01806497, HAL.
    17. Isabel Narbón-Perpiñá & Maria Teresa Balaguer-Coll & Diego Prior & Emili Tortosa-Ausina, 2021. "Searching for the optimal territorial structure: the case of Spanish provincial councils," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 55(4), pages 645-664, April.
    18. Juan Piedra-Peña & Marie-Laure Breuillé & Julie Le Gallo, 2024. "Municipal efficiency spillovers in France," The Annals of Regional Science, Springer;Western Regional Science Association, vol. 73(4), pages 2143-2172, December.
    19. Calogero Guccio & Marco Martorana & Isidoro Mazza & Giacomo Pignataro & Ilde Rizzo, 2019. "An analysis of the efficiency of Italian museums using a generalised conditional efficiency model," ACEI Working Paper Series AWP-06-2019, Association for Cultural Economics International, revised Dec 2019.
    20. Isabel Narbón-Perpiñá & Kristof De Witte, 2016. "Local governments’ efficiency: A systematic literature review – Part II," Working Papers 2016/21, Economics Department, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón (Spain).
    21. Ifigeneia-Dimitra Pougkakioti, 2021. "Measuring The Efficiency And Productivity Change Of Municipalities With An Output Oriented Model:Empirical Evidence Across Greek Municipalities Over The Time Period 2012-2016," Romanian Journal of Regional Science, Romanian Regional Science Association, vol. 15(1), pages 98-125, JUNE.
    22. Guccio, Calogero & Martorana, Marco & Mazza, Isidoro & Pignataro, Giacomo & Rizzo, Ilde, 2020. "An analysis of the managerial performance of Italian museums using a generalised conditional efficiency model," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 72(C).
    23. Benito, Bernardino & Guillamón, María-Dolores & Martínez-Córdoba, Pedro-José, 2020. "Determinants of efficiency improvement in the Spanish public lighting sector," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. 64(C).
    24. Jose M. Cordero & Francisco Pedraja-Chaparro & Elsa C. Pisaflores & Cristina Polo, 2017. "Efficiency assessment of Portuguese municipalities using a conditional nonparametric approach," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 48(1), pages 1-24, August.
    25. Francesco Aiello & Graziella Bonanno & Luigi Capristo, 2017. "Explaining Differences In Efficiency: The Case Of Local Government Literature," Working Papers 201704, Università della Calabria, Dipartimento di Economia, Statistica e Finanza "Giovanni Anania" - DESF.
    26. Benito, Bernardino & Martínez-Córdoba, Pedro-José & Guillamón, María-Dolores, 2021. "Measurement and determinants of efficiency in the municipal police service," Evaluation and Program Planning, Elsevier, vol. 85(C).
    27. Aiello, Francesco & Bonanno, Graziella & Capristo, Luigi, 2018. "Explaining differences in efficiency. A meta-study on local government literature," MPRA Paper 88982, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    28. Bracco, Emanuele & Liberini, Federica & Lockwood, Ben & Porcelli, Francesco & Redoano, Michela & Sgroi, Daniel, 2021. "The Effects of Social Capital on Government Performance and Turnover : Theory and Evidence from Italian Municipalities," QAPEC Discussion Papers 04, Quantitative and Analytical Political Economy Research Centre.
    29. Marina Cavalieri & Calogero Guccio & Domenico Lisi & Ilde Rizzo, 2020. "Does Institutional Quality Matter for Infrastructure Provision? A Non-parametric Analysis for Italian Municipalities," Italian Economic Journal: A Continuation of Rivista Italiana degli Economisti and Giornale degli Economisti, Springer;Società Italiana degli Economisti (Italian Economic Association), vol. 6(3), pages 521-562, November.
    30. Florian Dorn, 2021. "Elections and Government Efficiency," ifo Working Paper Series 363, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich.
    31. Bruno Emmanuel Ongo Nkoa & Djondandi Wangbara & Gautier Tchoffo Tameko, 2024. "Efficiency of local public spending in Cameroon: Does population size matter?," African Development Review, African Development Bank, vol. 36(2), pages 362-376, June.
    32. Afrasiabi, Ahmadreza & Chalmardi, Mazyar Kaboli & Balezentis, Tomas, 2022. "A novel hybrid evaluation framework for public organizations based on employees’ performance factors," Evaluation and Program Planning, Elsevier, vol. 91(C).
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    34. Maria Basílio & Clara Pires & Carlos Borralho & José Pires Reis, 2020. "Local government efficiency: is there anything new after Troika’s intervention in Portugal?," Eurasian Economic Review, Springer;Eurasia Business and Economics Society, vol. 10(2), pages 309-332, June.

  17. Ong C. & Witte K. de, 2013. "Ethnic segregation and heterogeneous preferences of homeowners for housing and neighbourhood characteristics : evidence from the Netherlands," MERIT Working Papers 2013-061, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT).

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    1. Ong, C., 2014. "Tipping points? Ethnic composition change in Dutch big city neighbourhoods," MERIT Working Papers 2014-011, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT).
    2. Cheng Boon Ong, 2017. "Tipping points in Dutch big city neighbourhoods," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 54(4), pages 1016-1037, March.

  18. De Witte, Kristof & Geys, Benny, 2012. "Citizen coproduction and efficient public good provision: Theory and evidence from local public libraries," Discussion Papers, Research Professorship & Project "The Future of Fiscal Federalism" SP II 2012-108, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.

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    2. Jesús A. Tapia & Bonifacio Salvador, 2022. "Data envelopment analysis efficiency in the public sector using provider and customer opinion: An application to the Spanish health system," Health Care Management Science, Springer, vol. 25(2), pages 333-346, June.
    3. Zuzana Murdoch & Jarle Trondal & Benny Geys, 2016. "Representative bureaucracy and seconded national government officials in the European Commission," Regulation & Governance, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 10(4), pages 335-349, December.
    4. Laura Carosi & Ana Camanho & Giovanna D’Inverno & Kristof Witte & Rossana Riccardi, 2020. "Preface to the special issue on performance measurement and efficiency analysis—theory and practice," Decisions in Economics and Finance, Springer;Associazione per la Matematica, vol. 43(2), pages 409-412, December.
    5. Cordero Ferrera, Jose Manuel & Alonso Morán, Edurne & Nuño Solís, Roberto & Orueta, Juan F. & Souto Arce, Regina, 2013. "Efficiency assessment of primary care providers: A conditional nonparametric approach," MPRA Paper 51926, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    6. Giovanna D'Inverno & Kristof De Witte, 2020. "Service level provision in municipalities: a flexible directional distance composite indicator," Working Papers of LEER - Leuven Economics of Education Research 656607, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), LEER - Leuven Economics of Education Research.
    7. Jose M. Cordero & Cristina Polo & Daniel Santín, 2020. "Assessment of new methods for incorporating contextual variables into efficiency measures: a Monte Carlo simulation," Operational Research, Springer, vol. 20(4), pages 2245-2265, December.
    8. Daniele, Gianmarco & Geys, Benny, 2015. "Interpersonal trust and welfare state support," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 39(C), pages 1-12.
    9. Hurlin, Christophe & Minea, Alexandru, 2013. "Is public capital really productive? A methodological reappraisal," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 228(1), pages 122-130.
    10. Abood Khaled Alamoudi & Rotimi Boluwatife Abidoye & Terence Y. M. Lam, 2022. "The Impact of Stakeholders’ Management Measures on Citizens’ Participation Level in Implementing Smart Sustainable Cities," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(24), pages 1-21, December.
    11. José Luis Zafra-Gómez & Victor Giménez-García & Cristina María Campos-Alba & Emilio José Higuera-Molina, 2020. "Direct Management or Inter-Municipal Cooperation in Smaller Municipalities? Exploring Cost Efficiency and Installed Capacity in Drinking Water Supply," Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), Springer;European Water Resources Association (EWRA), vol. 34(13), pages 4289-4302, October.
    12. Førsund, Finn R., 2017. "Measuring effectiveness of production in the public sector," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 73(C), pages 93-103.
    13. Calogero Guccio & Marco Martorana & Isidoro Mazza & Ilde Rizzo, 2021. "Back to the Future: Does the use of information and communication technology enhance the performance of public historical archives?," Journal of Cultural Economics, Springer;The Association for Cultural Economics International, vol. 45(1), pages 13-43, March.
    14. De Witte, Kristof & Schiltz, Fritz, 2018. "Measuring and explaining organizational effectiveness of school districts: Evidence from a robust and conditional Benefit-of-the-Doubt approach," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 267(3), pages 1172-1181.
    15. Cristina M. Campos-Alba & Emilio J. De la Higuera-Molina & Gemma Pérez-López & José L. Zafra-Gómez, 2019. "Measuring the Efficiency of Public and Private Delivery Forms: An Application to the Waste Collection Service Using Order-M Data Panel Frontier Analysis," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(7), pages 1-15, April.
    16. Osman, Ibrahim H. & Anouze, Abdel Latef & Irani, Zahir & Lee, Habin & Medeni, Tunç D. & Weerakkody, Vishanth, 2019. "A cognitive analytics management framework for the transformation of electronic government services from users’ perspective to create sustainable shared values," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 278(2), pages 514-532.
    17. Jarle Trondal & Zuzana Murdoch & Benny Geys, 2015. "Representative Bureaucracy and the Role of Expertise in Politics," Politics and Governance, Cogitatio Press, vol. 3(1), pages 26-36.
    18. Carina Steckenleiter & Michael Lechner & Tim Pawlowski & Ute Schüttoff, 2023. "Do local expenditures on sports facilities affect sports participation?," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 61(4), pages 1103-1128, October.
    19. Guccio, Calogero & Martorana, Marco & Mazza, Isidoro & Pignataro, Giacomo & Rizzo, Ilde, 2020. "An assessment of the performance of Italian public historical archives: Preservation vs utilisation," Journal of Policy Modeling, Elsevier, vol. 42(6), pages 1270-1286.
    20. Calogero Guccio & Marco Martorana & Isidoro Mazza & Giacomo Pignataro & Ilde Rizzo, 2019. "An analysis of the efficiency of Italian museums using a generalised conditional efficiency model," ACEI Working Paper Series AWP-06-2019, Association for Cultural Economics International, revised Dec 2019.
    21. Guccio, Calogero & Martorana, Marco & Mazza, Isidoro & Pignataro, Giacomo & Rizzo, Ilde, 2020. "An analysis of the managerial performance of Italian museums using a generalised conditional efficiency model," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 72(C).
    22. Jose M. Cordero & Francisco Pedraja-Chaparro & Elsa C. Pisaflores & Cristina Polo, 2017. "Efficiency assessment of Portuguese municipalities using a conditional nonparametric approach," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 48(1), pages 1-24, August.
    23. Guccio, Calogero & Mignosa, Anna & Rizzo, Ilde, 2018. "Are public state libraries efficient? An empirical assessment using network Data Envelopment Analysis," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 64(C), pages 78-91.
    24. Qi, Haozhi & Huang, Xucheng & Sheeraz, Muhammad, 2023. "Green financing for renewable energy development: Driving the attainment of zero-emission targets," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 213(C), pages 30-37.
    25. Kristof De Witte & Panagiotis Takis ILIOPOULOS, 2023. "The Expenditure Composition and Trade-offs in Local Government Budgets," Working Papers of LEER - Leuven Economics of Education Research 746856, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), LEER - Leuven Economics of Education Research.
    26. Cordero, José Manuel & Alonso-Morán, Edurne & Nuño-Solinis, Roberto & Orueta, Juan F. & Arce, Regina Sauto, 2015. "Efficiency assessment of primary care providers: A conditional nonparametric approach," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 240(1), pages 235-244.
    27. Calogero Guccio & Anna Mignosa & Ilde Rizzo, 2017. "Disentangle inefficiency in the production activities of Italian national libraries: A network DEA approach," ACEI Working Paper Series AWP-04-2017, Association for Cultural Economics International, revised Mar 2017.
    28. Nieswand, Maria & Seifert, Stefan, 2018. "Environmental factors in frontier estimation – A Monte Carlo analysis," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 265(1), pages 133-148.
    29. Fritz Schiltz & Kristof Witte & Deni Mazrekaj, 2020. "Managerial efficiency and efficiency differentials in adult education: a conditional and bias-corrected efficiency analysis," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 288(2), pages 529-546, May.
    30. De Witte, Kristof & Geys, Benny, 2010. "Evaluating efficient public good provision: Theory and evidence from a generalised conditional efficiency model for public libraries," Discussion Papers, Research Professorship & Project "The Future of Fiscal Federalism" SP II 2010-14, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
    31. María José Barrio-Tellado & Luis César Herrero-Prieto, 2019. "Modelling museum efficiency in producing inter-reliant outputs," Journal of Cultural Economics, Springer;The Association for Cultural Economics International, vol. 43(3), pages 485-512, September.
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    33. Fusco, Elisa & Vidoli, Francesco & Sahoo, Biresh K., 2018. "Spatial heterogeneity in composite indicator: A methodological proposal," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 77(C), pages 1-14.
    34. Koppitz David & Půček Milan & Ochrana František & Plaček Michal, 2015. "Comparative Analysis of Selected Factors Affecting Heating Costs of Schools in Selected Balkan Countries," NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy, Sciendo, vol. 8(1), pages 61-84, June.
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    2. Kristof De Witte & Laura López-Torres, 2017. "Efficiency in education: a review of literature and a way forward," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 68(4), pages 339-363, April.
    3. Jose M. Cordero & Cristina Polo & Daniel Santín, 2020. "Assessment of new methods for incorporating contextual variables into efficiency measures: a Monte Carlo simulation," Operational Research, Springer, vol. 20(4), pages 2245-2265, December.
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    5. María del Carmen Bas & Stefano Tarantola & José Miguel Carot & Andrea Conchado, 2017. "Sensitivity Analysis: A Necessary Ingredient for Measuring the Quality of a Teaching Activity Index," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 131(3), pages 931-946, April.
    6. Johnes, Jill, 2015. "Operational Research in education," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 243(3), pages 683-696.
    7. Vitezslav Titl & Kristof De Witte & Benny Geys, 2019. "Political donations, public procurement and government efficiency," CESifo Working Paper Series 7591, CESifo.
    8. Annalina Sarra & Eugenia Nissi, 2020. "A Spatial Composite Indicator for Human and Ecosystem Well-Being in the Italian Urban Areas," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 148(2), pages 353-377, April.
    9. Blancard, Stéphane & Boussemart, Jean-Philippe & Chavas, Jean-Paul & Leleu, Hervé, 2016. "Potential gains from specialization and diversification further to the reorganization of activities," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 63(C), pages 60-68.
    10. López-Torres, Laura & Prior, Diego, 2022. "Long-term efficiency of public service provision in a context of budget restrictions. An application to the education sector," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 81(C).
    11. López-Torres, Laura & Nicolini, Rosella & Prior, Diego, 2017. "Does strategic interaction affect demand for school places? A conditional efficiency approach," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 65(C), pages 89-103.
    12. Abolghasem, Sepideh & Gómez-Sarmiento, Juliana & Medaglia, Andrés L. & Sarmiento, Olga L. & González, Andrés D. & Díaz del Castillo, Adriana & Rozo-Casas, Juan F. & Jacoby, Enrique, 2018. "A DEA-centric decision support system for evaluating Ciclovía-Recreativa programs in the Americas," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 61(C), pages 90-101.
    13. Bonaccorsi, Andrea & Belingheri, Paola & Secondi, Luca, 2021. "The research productivity of universities. A multilevel and multidisciplinary analysis on European institutions," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 15(2).
    14. David J Mayston, 2017. "Convexity, quality and efficiency in education," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 68(4), pages 446-455, April.
    15. Palali, Ali & van Elk, Roel & Bolhaar, Jonneke & Rud, Iryna, 2018. "Are good researchers also good teachers? The relationship between research quality and teaching quality," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 64(C), pages 40-49.
    16. Brennan, Shae & Haelermans, Carla & Ruggiero, John, 2014. "Nonparametric estimation of education productivity incorporating nondiscretionary inputs with an application to Dutch schools," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 234(3), pages 809-818.
    17. Blackburn, Vincent & Brennan, Shae & Ruggiero, John, 2014. "Measuring efficiency in Australian Schools: A preliminary analysis," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 48(1), pages 4-9.
    18. Cordero, José Manuel & Alonso-Morán, Edurne & Nuño-Solinis, Roberto & Orueta, Juan F. & Arce, Regina Sauto, 2015. "Efficiency assessment of primary care providers: A conditional nonparametric approach," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 240(1), pages 235-244.
    19. Kao, Chiang, 2015. "Efficiency measurement for hierarchical network systems," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 51(C), pages 121-127.
    20. Adriano Simao Uaciquete & Martin Valcke, 2022. "Strengthening the Teaching and Research Nexus (TRN) in Higher Education (HE): Systematic Review of Reviews," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(22), pages 1-17, November.
    21. Silva, Maria C.A. & Camanho, Ana S. & Barbosa, Flávia, 2020. "Benchmarking of secondary schools based on Students’ results in higher education," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 95(C).
    22. Tommaso Agasisti & Alice Bertoletti & Gaetano Francesco Coppeta, 2024. "Policy responses to COVID-19 and the efficiency of Italian universities," Working papers 117, Società Italiana di Economia Pubblica.
    23. Kremantzis, Marios Dominikos & Beullens, Patrick & Kyrgiakos, Leonidas Sotirios & Klein, Jonathan, 2022. "Measurement and evaluation of multi-function parallel network hierarchical DEA systems," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 84(C).
    24. Mariano, Enzo Barberio & Sobreiro, Vinicius Amorim & Rebelatto, Daisy Aparecida do Nascimento, 2015. "Human development and data envelopment analysis: A structured literature review," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 54(C), pages 33-49.
    25. Fusco, Elisa & Vidoli, Francesco & Sahoo, Biresh K., 2018. "Spatial heterogeneity in composite indicator: A methodological proposal," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 77(C), pages 1-14.
    26. Calogero Guccio & Marco Ferdinando Martorana & Isidoro Mazza, 2016. "Efficiency assessment and convergence in teaching and research in Italian public universities," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 107(3), pages 1063-1094, June.

  20. De Witte, K. & Van Klaveren, C., 2012. "The effect of primary school closures on educational attainments of students," Working Papers 42, Top Institute for Evidence Based Education Research.

    Cited by:

    1. Heers, M. & Van Klaveren, C. & Groot, W. and Maassen van den Brink, H., 2012. "The Impact of Community Schools on Student Dropout in Pre-vocational Education," Working Papers 45, Top Institute for Evidence Based Education Research.

  21. Van Klaveren, C. & De Witte, K., 2012. "Football to Improve Math and Reading Performance," Working Papers 43, Top Institute for Evidence Based Education Research.

    Cited by:

    1. Almeida,Rita Kullberg & Bresolin,Antonio & Pugialli Da Silva Borges,Bruna & Mendes,Karen & Menezes Filho,Naercio, 2016. "Assessing the impacts of Mais Educacao on educational outcomes : evidence between 2007 and 2011," Policy Research Working Paper Series 7644, The World Bank.
    2. Mario Nosvelli, 2023. "Mens sana in corpore sano: the effects of sport on children’s learning in Italy," Economia Politica: Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics, Springer;Fondazione Edison, vol. 40(2), pages 703-729, July.
    3. Van Klaveren, C. & De Wolf, I., 2013. "Systematic Reviews In Education Research: When Do Effect Studies Provide Evidence?," Working Papers 46, Top Institute for Evidence Based Education Research.

  22. De Witte, Kristof & Rogge, Nicky & Cherchye, Laurens & Van Puyenbroeck, Tom, 2012. "Accounting for economies of scope in performance evaluations of university professors," Working Papers 2012/10, Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel, Faculteit Economie en Management.

    Cited by:

    1. Amir Brudner & Arieh Gavious, 2024. "A dynamic model of investment in research and teaching facilities in academic institutions," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 343(1), pages 67-85, December.
    2. Mehdi Rhaiem & Nabil Amara, 2020. "Determinants of research efficiency in Canadian business schools: evidence from scholar-level data," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 125(1), pages 53-99, October.
    3. Gnewuch, Matthias & Wohlrabe, Klaus, 2018. "Super-efficiency of education institutions: an application to economics departments," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 26, pages 610-623.
    4. Klaus Wohlrabe & Felix de Moya Anegon & Lutz Bornmann, 2018. "How efficiently produce elite US universities highly cited papers? A case study based on input and output data," ifo Working Paper Series 264, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich.
    5. Klaus Wohlrabe & Félix de Moya Anegon & Lutz Bornmann, 2019. "How Efficiently Do Elite US Universities Produce Highly Cited Papers?," Publications, MDPI, vol. 7(1), pages 1-15, January.
    6. Badiee, Aghdas & Moshtari, Mohammad & Berenguer, Gemma, 2024. "A systematic review of operations research and management science modeling techniques in the study of higher education institutions," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 93(C).
    7. Calogero Guccio & Marco Ferdinando Martorana & Isidoro Mazza, 2016. "Efficiency assessment and convergence in teaching and research in Italian public universities," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 107(3), pages 1063-1094, June.

  23. De Witte, Kristof & Geys, Benny & Solondz, Catharina, 2012. "Public expenditures, educational outcomes and grade inflation: Theory and evidence from a policy intervention in the Netherlands," Discussion Papers, Research Professorship & Project "The Future of Fiscal Federalism" SP II 2012-111, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.

    Cited by:

    1. Silva, Pedro Luís & DesJardins, Stephen L. & Biscaia, Ricardo & Sá, Carla & Teixeira, Pedro N., 2023. "Public and Private School Grade Inflations Patterns in Secondary Education," IZA Discussion Papers 16016, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    2. Robert Schwager, 2018. "Majority Vote on Educational Standards," CESifo Working Paper Series 6845, CESifo.
    3. Hyland, Marie & Layte, Richard & Lyons, Seán & McCoy, Selina & Silles, Mary, 2015. "Are Classroom Internet Use and Academic Performance Higher after Government Broadband Subsidies to Primary Schools?," Papers RB2015/2/6, Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI).
    4. Hernández-Julián, Rey & Looney, Adam, 2016. "Measuring inflation in grades: An application of price indexing to undergraduate grades," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 55(C), pages 220-232.
    5. S. Koza Ciftci & Engin Karadag, 2024. "Grade inflation effects of capacity expansion in higher education: a longitudinal study in undergraduate teacher education programs from 2003 to 2022," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 11(1), pages 1-9, December.
    6. Woo, Seokjin & Lee, Soohyung & Kim, Kyunghee, 2015. "Carrot and stick?: Impact of a low-stakes school accountability program on student achievement," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 137(C), pages 195-199.

  24. Laurens CHERCHYE & Thomas DEMUYNCK & Bram DE ROCK & Kristof DE WITTE, 2011. "Nonparametric analysis of multi-output production with joint inputs," Working Papers of Department of Economics, Leuven ces11.35, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Department of Economics, Leuven.

    Cited by:

    1. Walheer, Barnabé, 2018. "Disaggregation of the cost Malmquist productivity index with joint and output-specific inputs," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 75(C), pages 1-12.
    2. Laurens Cherchye & Bram De Rock & Dieter Saelens & Marijn Verschelde, 2022. "Productive Efficiency Analysis with Incomplete Output Information," Working Papers ECARES 2022-21, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
    3. Laurens Cherchye & Thomas Demuynck & Bram De Rock & Cédric Duprez & Glenn Magerman & Marijn Verschelde, 2021. "Structural Identification of Productivity under Biased Technological Change∗," Working Papers ECARES 2021-28, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
    4. Laurens Cherchye & Bram De Rock & Barnabé Walheer, 2013. "Multi-Output Efficiency with Good and Bad Outputs," Working Papers ECARES ECARES 2013-35, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
    5. Cherchye, Laurens & De Rock, Bram & Kerstens, Pieter Jan, 2018. "Production with storable and durable inputs: Nonparametric analysis of intertemporal efficiency," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 270(2), pages 498-513.
    6. Cristina M. Campos-Alba & Emilio J. De la Higuera-Molina & Gemma Pérez-López & José L. Zafra-Gómez, 2019. "Measuring the Efficiency of Public and Private Delivery Forms: An Application to the Waste Collection Service Using Order-M Data Panel Frontier Analysis," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(7), pages 1-15, April.
    7. Bertoméu-Sánchez, Salvador & Estache, Antonio, 2017. "Unbundling political and economic rationality: A non-parametric approach tested on transport infrastructure in Spain," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 59(C), pages 181-195.
    8. Victor H. Aguiar & Nail Kashaev & Roy Allen, 2022. "Prices, Profits, Proxies, and Production," University of Western Ontario, Departmental Research Report Series 20226, University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics.
    9. Laurens Cherchye & Bram De Rock & Veerle Hennebel, 2017. "Coordination efficiency in multi-output settings: a DEA approach," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 250(1), pages 205-233, March.
    10. Cherchye, Laurens & De Rock, Bram & Hennebel, Veerle, 2014. "The economic meaning of Data Envelopment Analysis: A ‘behavioral’ perspective," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 48(1), pages 29-37.
    11. Cherchye, Laurens & De Rock, Bram & Walheer, Barnabé, 2016. "Multi-output profit efficiency and directional distance functions," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 61(C), pages 100-109.
    12. Walheer, Barnabé, 2019. "Aggregating Farrell efficiencies with private and public inputs," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 276(3), pages 1170-1177.
    13. Laurens Cherchye & Thomas Demuynck & Bram De Rock & Marijn Verschelde, 2018. "Nonparametric identification of unobserved technological heterogeneity in production," Working Paper Research 335, National Bank of Belgium.
    14. Juan Carlos Garrido-Rodríguez & Gemma Pérez-López & José Luis Zafra-Gómez & Diego Prior, 2018. "Estimación de la eficiencia a largo plazo en servicios públicos locales mediante fronteras robustas con datos de panel," Hacienda Pública Española / Review of Public Economics, IEF, vol. 226(3), pages 11-36, September.
    15. Laurens Cherchye & Bram De Rock, 2024. "Nonparametric Analysis of Separable Production Technologies with Intermediate Inputs," Working Papers ECARES 2024-13, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
    16. Nicolas GAVOILLE & Marijn VERSCHELDE, 2016. "Electoral competition and political selection: An analysis of the activity of French deputies, 1958-2012," Economics Working Paper from Condorcet Center for political Economy at CREM-CNRS 2016-02-ccr, Condorcet Center for political Economy.
    17. Laurens Cherchye & Bram De Rock & Antonio Estache & Marijn Verschelde, 2015. "Efficiency Measures in Regulated Industries: History, Outstanding Challenges and Emerging Solutions," Working Papers ECARES ECARES 2015-09, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
    18. Bart Roets & Marijn Verschelde & Johan Christiaens, 2018. "Multi-output efficiency and operational safety: An analysis of railway traffic control centre performance," Post-Print hal-01914849, HAL.
    19. Fritz Schiltz & Kristof Witte & Deni Mazrekaj, 2020. "Managerial efficiency and efficiency differentials in adult education: a conditional and bias-corrected efficiency analysis," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 288(2), pages 529-546, May.
    20. Ding, Jingjing & Dong, Wei & Liang, Liang & Zhu, Joe, 2017. "Goal congruence analysis in multi-Division Organizations with shared resources based on data envelopment analysis," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 263(3), pages 961-973.
    21. Salvador Bertomeu & Antonio Estache, 2016. "Unbundling Political and Economic Rationality: a Non-Parametric Approach Tested on Spain," Working Papers ECARES ECARES 2016-17, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
    22. Laurens Cherchye & Thomas Demuynck & Bram De Rock & Marijn Verschelde, 2018. "Nonparametric Production Analysis with Unobserved Heterogeneity in Productivity," Working Papers ECARES 2018-25, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
    23. Walheer, Barnabe & Hudik, Marek, 2019. "Reallocation of resources in multidivisional firms: A nonparametric approach," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 214(C), pages 196-205.

  25. De Witte, K. & Van Klaveren, C. & Smets, A., 2011. "Selective Migration in New Towns: Influence on Regional Accountability in Early School Leaving," Working Papers 39, Top Institute for Evidence Based Education Research.

    Cited by:

    1. Heers, M. & Van Klaveren, C. & Groot, W. and Maassen van den Brink, H., 2012. "The Impact of Community Schools on Student Dropout in Pre-vocational Education," Working Papers 45, Top Institute for Evidence Based Education Research.

  26. De Witte, K. & Van Klaveren, C., 2010. "How are Teachers Teaching? A Nonparametric Approach," Working Papers 36, Top Institute for Evidence Based Education Research.

    Cited by:

    1. Ana Hidalgo-Cabrillana & Cristina Lopez-Mayan, 2015. "Teaching Styles and Achievement: Student and Teacher Perspectives," UFAE and IAE Working Papers 958.15, Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica (UAB) and Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica (CSIC).
    2. Cinzia Daraio & Leopold Simar & Paul W. Wilson, 2016. "Nonparametric Estimation of Efficiency in the Presence of Environmental Variables," DIAG Technical Reports 2016-02, Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza".
    3. Kristof De Witte & Laura López-Torres, 2017. "Efficiency in education: a review of literature and a way forward," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 68(4), pages 339-363, April.
    4. Cordero, Jose M. & Gil-Izquierdo, María, 2018. "The effect of teaching strategies on student achievement: An analysis using TALIS-PISA-link," Journal of Policy Modeling, Elsevier, vol. 40(6), pages 1313-1331.
    5. José Antonio Molina Marfil & Oscar David Marcenaro Gutierrez & Ana Martín Marcos, 2016. "Procesos de enseñanza-aprendizaje y producción educativa: un análisis de la competencia matemática," Investigaciones de Economía de la Educación volume 11, in: José Manuel Cordero Ferrera & Rosa Simancas Rodríguez (ed.), Investigaciones de Economía de la Educación 11, edition 1, volume 11, chapter 32, pages 585-604, Asociación de Economía de la Educación.
    6. Chiara Masci & Francesca Ieva & Tommaso Agasisti & Anna Maria Paganoni, 2021. "Evaluating class and school effects on the joint student achievements in different subjects: a bivariate semiparametric model with random coefficients," Computational Statistics, Springer, vol. 36(4), pages 2337-2377, December.
    7. Carlos Cortinhas, 2017. "Does formative feedback help or hinder students? An empirical investigation," Discussion Papers 1701, University of Exeter, Department of Economics.
    8. Daniel Santín & Gabriela Sicilia, 2018. "Using DEA for measuring teachers’ performance and the impact on students’ outcomes: evidence for Spain," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 49(1), pages 1-15, February.
    9. Vittadini, Giorgio & Sturaro, Caterina & Folloni, Giuseppe, 2022. "Non-Cognitive Skills and Cognitive Skills to measure school efficiency," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 81(C).
    10. Escardíbul, Josep Oriol & Calero, Jorge, 2013. "Two Quality Factors In The Education System: Teaching Staff And School Autonomy. The Current State Of Research," Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies, Euro-American Association of Economic Development, vol. 13(3), pages 5-18.
    11. Renato A. Villano & Carolyn‐Dung T. T. Tran, 2021. "Survey on technical efficiency in higher education: A meta‐fractional regression analysis," Pacific Economic Review, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 26(1), pages 110-135, February.
    12. Francesco Vidoli & Elisa Fusco & Claudio Mazziotta, 2015. "Non-compensability in Composite Indicators: A Robust Directional Frontier Method," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 122(3), pages 635-652, July.

  27. De Witte, Kristof & Geys, Benny, 2010. "Evaluating efficient public good provision: Theory and evidence from a generalised conditional efficiency model for public libraries," Discussion Papers, Research Professorship & Project "The Future of Fiscal Federalism" SP II 2010-14, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.

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    1. Calogero Guccio & Marco Martorana & Isidoro Mazza & Ilde Rizzo, 2016. "Back to the Future. The effect of digital technology on the performance of public historical archives," ACEI Working Paper Series AWP-10-2016, Association for Cultural Economics International, revised Sep 2016.
    2. Zuzana Murdoch & Jarle Trondal & Benny Geys, 2016. "Representative bureaucracy and seconded national government officials in the European Commission," Regulation & Governance, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 10(4), pages 335-349, December.
    3. Cordero Ferrera, Jose Manuel & Alonso Morán, Edurne & Nuño Solís, Roberto & Orueta, Juan F. & Souto Arce, Regina, 2013. "Efficiency assessment of primary care providers: A conditional nonparametric approach," MPRA Paper 51926, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. Badin, Luiza & Daraio, Cinzia & Simar, Leopold, 2018. "A Bootstrap Approach for Bandwidth Selection in Estimating Conditional Efficiency Measures," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2018007, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    5. Victor Fernandez-Blanco & Ana Rodriguez-Alvarez & Aleksandra Wisniewska, 2017. "Measuring Technical Efficiency and Marginal Costs in the Performing Arts: The Case of the Municipal Theatres of Warsaw," ACEI Working Paper Series AWP-09-2017, Association for Cultural Economics International, revised Oct 2017.
    6. Victor Fernandez-Blanco & Ana Rodriguez-Alvarez, 2015. "Measuring allocative efficiency in cultural economics: The case of Fundacion Princesa de Asturias," ACEI Working Paper Series AWP-09-2015, Association for Cultural Economics International, revised Oct 2015.
    7. Giovanna D'Inverno & Kristof De Witte, 2020. "Service level provision in municipalities: a flexible directional distance composite indicator," Working Papers of LEER - Leuven Economics of Education Research 656607, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), LEER - Leuven Economics of Education Research.
    8. Yunguo Lu & Lin Zhang, 2023. "Environmental information disclosure and firm production: evidence from the estimated efficiency of publicly listed firms in China," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 59(1), pages 99-119, February.
    9. Amir B. Ferreira Neto & Joshua Hall, 2017. "Economies of Scale and Governance of Library Systems: Evidence from West Virginia," Working Papers 17-13, Department of Economics, West Virginia University.
    10. Rodriguez Lesmes,Paul Andres & Trujillo,Jose Daniel & Valderrama Gonzalez,Daniel, 2015. "Are public libraries improving quality of education ? when the provision of public goods is not enough," Policy Research Working Paper Series 7429, The World Bank.
    11. Potrafke, Niklas, 2013. "Evidence on the political principal-agent problem from voting on public finance for concert halls," Munich Reprints in Economics 19268, University of Munich, Department of Economics.
    12. Hong Ngoc Nguyen & Christopher O’Donnell, 2022. "Estimating the Revenue Efficiency of Public Service Providersin the Presence of Demand Constraints," CEPA Working Papers Series WP032022, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    13. Soukopová Jana & Nemec Juraj & Matějová Lenka & Struk Michal, 2014. "Municipality Size and Local Public Services: Do Economies of Scale Exist ?," NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy, Sciendo, vol. 7(2), pages 151-171, December.
    14. Titl, Vitezslav & De Witte, Kristof, 2022. "How politics influence public good provision," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 81(C).
    15. Førsund, Finn R., 2017. "Measuring effectiveness of production in the public sector," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 73(C), pages 93-103.
    16. Vrabková, Iveta, 2019. "Models of static and dynamic technical efficiency of municipal libraries in the Czech Republic," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 68(C).
    17. Calogero Guccio & Marco Martorana & Isidoro Mazza & Ilde Rizzo, 2021. "Back to the Future: Does the use of information and communication technology enhance the performance of public historical archives?," Journal of Cultural Economics, Springer;The Association for Cultural Economics International, vol. 45(1), pages 13-43, March.
    18. Isabel Narbón-Perpiñá & Mª Teresa Balaguer-Coll & Marko Petrovic & Emili Tortosa-Ausina, 2017. "Which estimator to measure local governments’ cost efficiency? An application to Spanish municipalities," Working Papers 2017/06, Economics Department, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón (Spain).
    19. B Ferreira Neto, Amir, 2018. "Do public libraries impact local labor markets? Evidence from Appalachia," MPRA Paper 89584, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    20. Hong Ngoc Nguyen & Christopher O'Donnell, 2021. "Estimating the Cost Efficiency of Public Service Providers in the Presence of Demand Uncertainty," CEPA Working Papers Series WP122021, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    21. Vitezslav Titl & Kristof De Witte & Benny Geys, 2019. "Political donations, public procurement and government efficiency," CESifo Working Paper Series 7591, CESifo.
    22. Asatryan, Zareh & De Witte, Kristof, 2015. "Direct democracy and local government efficiency," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 39(C), pages 58-66.
    23. Jarle Trondal & Zuzana Murdoch & Benny Geys, 2015. "Representative Bureaucracy and the Role of Expertise in Politics," Politics and Governance, Cogitatio Press, vol. 3(1), pages 26-36.
    24. Cuccia, Tiziana & Guccio, Calogero & Rizzo, Ilde, 2016. "The effects of UNESCO World Heritage List inscription on tourism destinations performance in Italian regions," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 53(C), pages 494-508.
    25. Nguyen, Hong Ngoc & O’Donnell, Christopher, 2023. "Estimating the cost efficiency of public service providers in the presence of demand uncertainty," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 309(3), pages 1334-1348.
    26. Vidoli, Francesco & Auteri, Monica & Marinuzzi, Giorgia & Tortorella, Walter, 2023. "Spatial interdependence in cost efficiency and local government optimal size: The case of Italian municipalities," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 86(C).
    27. Isabel Narbón-Perpiñá & Maria Teresa Balaguer-Coll & Diego Prior & Emili Tortosa-Ausina, 2021. "Searching for the optimal territorial structure: the case of Spanish provincial councils," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 55(4), pages 645-664, April.
    28. Cinzia Daraio & Leopold Simar & Paul W. Wilson, 2018. "Fast and Efficient Computation of Directional Distance Estimators," LEM Papers Series 2018/21, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy.
    29. Dannemann, Bernhard C., 2019. "Peer effects in secondary education: Evidence from trends in mathematics and science study 2015 based on weak-tie bonds," VfS Annual Conference 2019 (Leipzig): 30 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall - Democracy and Market Economy 203485, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
    30. Víctor Fernández-Blanco & Ana Rodríguez-Álvarez, 2018. "Measuring allocative efficiency in Cultural Economics: the case of “Fundación Princesa de Asturias” (The Princess of Asturias Foundation)," Journal of Cultural Economics, Springer;The Association for Cultural Economics International, vol. 42(1), pages 91-110, February.
    31. Israel Garcia & Bernd Hayo, 2020. "Political Budget Cycles Revisited: Testing the Signalling Process," MAGKS Papers on Economics 202014, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Department of Economics (Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung).
    32. Guccio, Calogero & Martorana, Marco & Mazza, Isidoro & Pignataro, Giacomo & Rizzo, Ilde, 2020. "An assessment of the performance of Italian public historical archives: Preservation vs utilisation," Journal of Policy Modeling, Elsevier, vol. 42(6), pages 1270-1286.
    33. Isabel Narbón-Perpiñá & Maria Teresa Balaguer-Coll & Marko Petrović & Emili Tortosa-Ausina, 2020. "Which estimator to measure local governments’ cost efficiency? The case of Spanish municipalities," SERIEs: Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, Springer;Spanish Economic Association, vol. 11(1), pages 51-82, March.
    34. Israel Garcia & Bernd Hayo, 2022. "The Influence of Politicians’ Sex on Political Budget Cycles: An Empirical Analysis of Spanish Municipalities," MAGKS Papers on Economics 202223, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Department of Economics (Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung).
    35. Luis César Herrero-Prieto & Mafalda Gómez-Vega, 2017. "Cultural resources as a factor in cultural tourism attraction," Tourism Economics, , vol. 23(2), pages 260-280, March.
    36. Hecker, Lutz Philip & Wätzold, Frank & Markwardt, Gunther, 2020. "Spotlight on Spatial Spillovers: An Econometric Analysis of Wastewater Treatment in Mexican Municipalities," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 175(C).
    37. Changhee Kim & Hyunjung Kim & Kanghwa Choi, 2020. "Efficiency Analysis of Public Library Services Based on Establishing Entity and Outsourcing," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(21), pages 1-15, November.
    38. Calogero Guccio & Marco Martorana & Isidoro Mazza & Giacomo Pignataro & Ilde Rizzo, 2019. "An analysis of the efficiency of Italian museums using a generalised conditional efficiency model," ACEI Working Paper Series AWP-06-2019, Association for Cultural Economics International, revised Dec 2019.
    39. Víctor Fernández-Blanco & Luis César Herrero & Juan Prieto-Rodríguez, 2013. "Performance of cultural heritage institutions," Chapters, in: Ilde Rizzo & Anna Mignosa (ed.), Handbook on the Economics of Cultural Heritage, chapter 24, pages i-i, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    40. A. Ruijs & M. Kortelainen & A. Wossink & C.J.E. Schulp & R. Alkemade & Paul Madden, 2012. "Opportunity cost estimation of ecosystem services," Economics Discussion Paper Series 1222, Economics, The University of Manchester.
    41. Andrej Srakar & Eva Kodric-Dacic & Klemen Koman & Damjan Kavas, 2017. "Efficiency of Slovenian General Public Libraries: A Data Envelopment Analysis Approach," ACEI Working Paper Series AWP-07-2017, Association for Cultural Economics International, revised Sep 2017.
    42. Luis César Herrero-Prieto, 2013. "Is Museum Performance Affected By Location And Institution Type? Measuring Cultural Institution Efficiency Through Non-Parametric Techniques," The Institute for International Integration Studies Discussion Paper Series iiisdp425, IIIS.
    43. Yan, Jia & Oum, Tae Hoon, 2014. "The effect of government corruption on the efficiency of US commercial airports," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 80(C), pages 119-132.
    44. Juan Carlos Garrido-Rodríguez & Gemma Pérez-López & José Luis Zafra-Gómez & Diego Prior, 2018. "Estimación de la eficiencia a largo plazo en servicios públicos locales mediante fronteras robustas con datos de panel," Hacienda Pública Española / Review of Public Economics, IEF, vol. 226(3), pages 11-36, September.
    45. Shi, Jiangang & Dai, Xingying & Duan, Kaifeng & Li, Jiajia, 2023. "Exploring the performances and determinants of public service provision in 35 major cities in China from the perspectives of efficiency and effectiveness," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 85(C).
    46. Guccio, Calogero & Martorana, Marco & Mazza, Isidoro & Pignataro, Giacomo & Rizzo, Ilde, 2020. "An analysis of the managerial performance of Italian museums using a generalised conditional efficiency model," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 72(C).
    47. Bekkerman, Anton & Gilpin, Gregory, 2013. "High-speed Internet growth and the demand for locally accessible information content," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 77(C), pages 1-10.
    48. Guccio, Calogero & Mignosa, Anna & Rizzo, Ilde, 2018. "Are public state libraries efficient? An empirical assessment using network Data Envelopment Analysis," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 64(C), pages 78-91.
    49. Kristof De Witte & Panagiotis Takis ILIOPOULOS, 2023. "The Expenditure Composition and Trade-offs in Local Government Budgets," Working Papers of LEER - Leuven Economics of Education Research 746856, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), LEER - Leuven Economics of Education Research.
    50. Cordero, José Manuel & Alonso-Morán, Edurne & Nuño-Solinis, Roberto & Orueta, Juan F. & Arce, Regina Sauto, 2015. "Efficiency assessment of primary care providers: A conditional nonparametric approach," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 240(1), pages 235-244.
    51. Calogero Guccio & Anna Mignosa & Ilde Rizzo, 2017. "Disentangle inefficiency in the production activities of Italian national libraries: A network DEA approach," ACEI Working Paper Series AWP-04-2017, Association for Cultural Economics International, revised Mar 2017.
    52. De Witte, Kristof & Geys, Benny, 2012. "Citizen coproduction and efficient public good provision: Theory and evidence from local public libraries," Discussion Papers, Research Professorship & Project "The Future of Fiscal Federalism" SP II 2012-108, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
    53. Vladimír Holý, 2022. "The impact of operating environment on efficiency of public libraries," Central European Journal of Operations Research, Springer;Slovak Society for Operations Research;Hungarian Operational Research Society;Czech Society for Operations Research;Österr. Gesellschaft für Operations Research (ÖGOR);Slovenian Society Informatika - Section for Operational Research;Croatian Operational Research Society, vol. 30(1), pages 395-414, March.
    54. María José Barrio-Tellado & Luis César Herrero-Prieto, 2019. "Modelling museum efficiency in producing inter-reliant outputs," Journal of Cultural Economics, Springer;The Association for Cultural Economics International, vol. 43(3), pages 485-512, September.
    55. Afrasiabi, Ahmadreza & Chalmardi, Mazyar Kaboli & Balezentis, Tomas, 2022. "A novel hybrid evaluation framework for public organizations based on employees’ performance factors," Evaluation and Program Planning, Elsevier, vol. 91(C).
    56. Fusco, Elisa & Vidoli, Francesco & Sahoo, Biresh K., 2018. "Spatial heterogeneity in composite indicator: A methodological proposal," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 77(C), pages 1-14.
    57. Del Barrio-Tellado, María José & Gómez-Vega, Mafalda & Gómez-Zapata, Jonathan Daniel & Herrero-Prieto, Luis César, 2021. "Urban public libraries: Performance analysis using dynamic-network-DEA," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 74(C).
    58. José Manuel Cordero & Cristina Polo & Daniel Santín & Gabriela Sicilia, 2016. "Monte-Carlo Comparison of Conditional Nonparametric Methods and Traditional Approaches to Include Exogenous Variables," Pacific Economic Review, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 21(4), pages 483-497, October.
    59. Nguyen, Hong Ngoc & O’Donnell, Christopher, 2024. "Incorporating demand constraints into piecewise frontier models of public service provision," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 128(C).
    60. Tiziana Cuccia & Calogero Guccio & Ilde Rizzo, 2013. "Does Unesco inscription affect the performance of tourism destinations? A regional perspective," ACEI Working Paper Series AWP-04-2013, Association for Cultural Economics International, revised Oct 2013.
    61. Del Barrio-Tellado, María José & Gómez-Vega, Mafalda & Herrero-Prieto, Luis César, 2023. "Performance of cultural heritage institutions: A regional perspective," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 87(PB).

  28. De Witte, K. & Cabus, S.J., 2010. "Dropout prevention measures in the Netherlands, an evaluation," Working Papers 31, Top Institute for Evidence Based Education Research.

    Cited by:

    1. Cabus, Sofie J. & De Witte, Kristof, 2012. "Naming and shaming in a ‘fair’ way. On disentangling the influence of policy in observed outcomes," Journal of Policy Modeling, Elsevier, vol. 34(5), pages 767-787.
    2. Kristof De Witte & Chris Van Klaveren, 2012. "Comparing students by a matching analysis -- on early school leaving in Dutch cities," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 44(28), pages 3679-3690, October.

  29. K. De Witte & M. Verschelde, 2010. "Estimating and explaining efficiency in a multilevel setting: A robust two-stage approach," Working Papers of Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Belgium 10/657, Ghent University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration.

    Cited by:

    1. Halkos, George & Tzeremes, Nickolaos, 2011. "A conditional full frontier modelling for analyzing environmental efficiency and economic growth," MPRA Paper 32839, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Michael L. Lahr & João Pedro Ferreira & Johannes R. Többen, 2020. "Intraregional trade shares for goods‐producing industries: RPC estimates using EU data," Papers in Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 99(6), pages 1583-1605, December.
    3. George Halkos & Nickolaos Tzeremes, 2014. "Measuring the effect of Kyoto protocol agreement on countries’ environmental efficiency in CO 2 emissions: an application of conditional full frontiers," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 41(3), pages 367-382, June.
    4. Halkos, George & Tzeremes, Nickolaos, 2012. "A conditional directional distance function approach for measuring regional environmental efficiency: Evidence from the UK regions," MPRA Paper 38147, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    5. Halkos, George & Tzeremes, Nickolaos, 2011. "A conditional full frontier approach for investigating the Averch-Johnson effect," MPRA Paper 35491, University Library of Munich, Germany.

  30. De Witte, K. & Maassen van den Brink, H. & Groot, W., 2010. "The efficiency of education in generating literacy: a stochastic frontier approach," Working Papers 30, Top Institute for Evidence Based Education Research.

    Cited by:

    1. Guillermo Jopen Sánchez, 2016. "Measuring Technical Efficiency in Primary Education: Evidences for Peruvian Case," Working Papers 77, Peruvian Economic Association.
    2. Haelermans, Carla & Ruggiero, John, 2013. "Estimating technical and allocative efficiency in the public sector: A nonparametric analysis of Dutch schools," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 227(1), pages 174-181.
    3. Guillermo Jopen Sánchez, 2017. "Factores discrecionales y no discrecionales de la eficiencia educativa: evidencias para el caso peruano," Documentos de Trabajo / Working Papers 2017-437, Departamento de Economía - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.

  31. Emrouznejad, A. & De Witte, K., 2010. "COOPER-framework: A Unified Standard Process for Non-parametric Projects," Working Papers 18, Top Institute for Evidence Based Education Research.

    Cited by:

    1. Sebastian Kohl & Jan Schoenfelder & Andreas Fügener & Jens O. Brunner, 2019. "The use of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in healthcare with a focus on hospitals," Health Care Management Science, Springer, vol. 22(2), pages 245-286, June.
    2. Ali Emrouznejad, 2014. "Advances in data envelopment analysis," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 214(1), pages 1-4, March.
    3. Hatami-Marbini, Adel & Emrouznejad, Ali & Tavana, Madjid, 2011. "A taxonomy and review of the fuzzy data envelopment analysis literature: Two decades in the making," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 214(3), pages 457-472, November.
    4. Ghasemi, M.-R. & Ignatius, Joshua & Emrouznejad, Ali, 2014. "A bi-objective weighted model for improving the discrimination power in MCDEA," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 233(3), pages 640-650.
    5. Asatryan, Zareh & De Witte, Kristof, 2015. "Direct democracy and local government efficiency," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 39(C), pages 58-66.
    6. Majid Baghery & Samuel Yousefi & Mustafa Jahangoshai Rezaee, 2018. "Risk measurement and prioritization of auto parts manufacturing processes based on process failure analysis, interval data envelopment analysis and grey relational analysis," Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Springer, vol. 29(8), pages 1803-1825, December.
    7. Victoria Wojcik & Harald Dyckhoff & Marcel Clermont, 2019. "Is data envelopment analysis a suitable tool for performance measurement and benchmarking in non-production contexts?," Business Research, Springer;German Academic Association for Business Research, vol. 12(2), pages 559-595, December.
    8. Jahangoshai Rezaee, Mustafa & Moini, Alireza & Makui, Ahmad, 2012. "Operational and non-operational performance evaluation of thermal power plants in Iran: A game theory approach," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 38(1), pages 96-103.
    9. Mahmoudi, Reza & Shetab-Boushehri, Seyyed-Nader & Hejazi, Seyed Reza & Emrouznejad, Ali & Rajabi, Parisa, 2019. "A hybrid egalitarian bargaining game-DEA and sustainable network design approach for evaluating, selecting and scheduling urban road construction projects," Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, vol. 130(C), pages 161-183.
    10. Emrouznejad, Ali & Rostami-Tabar, Bahman & Petridis, Konstantinos, 2016. "A novel ranking procedure for forecasting approaches using Data Envelopment Analysis," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 111(C), pages 235-243.
    11. Youchao Tan & Udaya Shetty & Ali Diabat & T. Pakkala, 2015. "Aggregate directional distance formulation of DEA with integer variables," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 235(1), pages 741-756, December.
    12. Arabi, Behrouz & Munisamy, Susila & Emrouznejad, Ali & Toloo, Mehdi & Ghazizadeh, Mohammad Sadegh, 2016. "Eco-efficiency considering the issue of heterogeneity among power plants," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 111(C), pages 722-735.
    13. M. Khodabakhshi & K. Aryavash, 2014. "The fair allocation of common fixed cost or revenue using DEA concept," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 214(1), pages 187-194, March.

  32. Rogge, Nicky & De Witte, Kristof, 2009. "To publish or not to publish? On the aggregation and drivers of research performance," Working Papers 2009/42, Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel, Faculteit Economie en Management.

    Cited by:

    1. Kristof De Witte & Laura López-Torres, 2017. "Efficiency in education: a review of literature and a way forward," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 68(4), pages 339-363, April.
    2. De Jaeger, Simon & Rogge, Nicky, 2014. "Cost-efficiency in packaging waste management: The case of Belgium," Resources, Conservation & Recycling, Elsevier, vol. 85(C), pages 106-115.
    3. Diniz-Filho, José Alexandre F. & Fioravanti, Maria Clorinda S. & Bini, Luis Mauricio & Rangel, Thiago Fernando, 2016. "Drivers of academic performance in a Brazilian university under a government-restructuring program," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 10(1), pages 151-161.
    4. De Witte, Kristof & Rogge, Nicky & Cherchye, Laurens & Van Puyenbroeck, Tom, 2013. "Economies of scope in research and teaching: A non-parametric investigation," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 41(2), pages 305-314.
    5. Juan Antonio Dip, 2021. "What does U-multirank tell us about knowledge transfer and research?," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 126(4), pages 3011-3039, April.
    6. Camanho, Ana S. & Stumbriene, Dovile & Barbosa, Flávia & Jakaitiene, Audrone, 2023. "The assessment of performance trends and convergence in education and training systems of European countries," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 305(1), pages 356-372.
    7. Giannis Karagiannis & Georgia Paschalidou, 2017. "Assessing research effectiveness: a comparison of alternative nonparametric models," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 68(4), pages 456-468, April.
    8. Andrea Diem & Stefan C. Wolter, 2011. "The Use of Bibliometrics to Measure Research Performance in Education Sciences," Economics of Education Working Paper Series 0066, University of Zurich, Department of Business Administration (IBW), revised May 2013.
    9. Tol, Richard S. J., 2011. "Shapley Values for Assessing Research Production and Impact of Schools and Scholars," Papers WP370, Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI).
    10. Thanassoulis, E. & Sotiros, D. & Koronakos, G. & Despotis, D., 2018. "Assessing the cost-effectiveness of university academic recruitment and promotion policies," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 264(2), pages 742-755.
    11. Rogge, Nicky & Archer, Geoffrey, 2021. "Measuring and analyzing country change in establishing ease of doing business using a revised version of World Bank's ease of doing business index," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 290(1), pages 373-385.
    12. Paul A. Djupe & Kim Quaile Hill & Amy Erica Smith & Anand E. Sokhey, 2020. "Putting personality in context: determinants of research productivity and impact in political science," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 124(3), pages 2279-2300, September.
    13. Karagiannis, Giannis, 2023. "Aggregating faculty members’ research effectiveness to the department or university level: Exact versus approximate solutions," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 90(C).
    14. Farideh Osare & Mariam Keshvari, 2024. "Evaluation of a Scientific Productivity Model among World Highly Cited Authors: a Study Based on Experts’ Opinions," Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Springer;Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), vol. 15(3), pages 14452-14485, September.
    15. Fusco, Elisa & Vidoli, Francesco & Sahoo, Biresh K., 2018. "Spatial heterogeneity in composite indicator: A methodological proposal," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 77(C), pages 1-14.
    16. Chiang Kao & Shiang-Tai Liu & Hwei-Lan Pao, 2012. "Assessing improvement in management research in Taiwan," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 92(1), pages 75-87, July.
    17. Kristof Witte & Lenka Hudrlikova, 2013. "What about excellence in teaching? A benevolent ranking of universities," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 96(1), pages 337-364, July.

  33. De Witte, Kristof & Moesen, Wim, 2009. "Sizing the Government," MPRA Paper 14785, University Library of Munich, Germany.

    Cited by:

    1. François Facchini & Mickaël Melki, 2013. "Efficient government size: France in the 20 th century," Post-Print hal-01286723, HAL.
    2. Hajamini, Mehdi & Falahi, Mohammad Ali, 2018. "Economic growth and government size in developed European countries: A panel threshold approach," Economic Analysis and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 58(C), pages 1-13.
    3. Petr Zimčík, 2016. "Velikost veřejného sektoru a ekonomický růst [The Scope of Government and Economic Growth]," Politická ekonomie, Prague University of Economics and Business, vol. 2016(4), pages 439-450.
    4. Huguenin, Jean-Marc, 2015. "Adjusting for the environment in DEA: A comparison of alternative models based on empirical data," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 52(C), pages 41-54.
    5. Alfred Wu & Mi Lin, 2012. "Determinants of government size: evidence from China," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 151(1), pages 255-270, April.
    6. Tommaso Agasisti & Giuseppe Munda, 2017. "Efficiency of investment in compulsory education: An Overview of Methodological Approaches," JRC Research Reports JRC106681, Joint Research Centre.
    7. Que, Wei & Zhang, Yabin & Schulze, Günther, 2019. "Is public spending behavior important for Chinese official promotion? Evidence from city-level," China Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 54(C), pages 403-417.
    8. Churchill, Sefa Awaworyi & Ugur, Mehmet & Yew, Siew Ling, 2016. "Does government size affect per-capita income growth? A Hierarchical meta-regression analysis," Greenwich Papers in Political Economy 16016, University of Greenwich, Greenwich Political Economy Research Centre.
    9. José Alves, 2021. "The Sinful Side of Taxation: Is it Possible to Satisfy the Government Hunger for Revenues While Promoting Economic Growth?," Hacienda Pública Española / Review of Public Economics, IEF, vol. 237(2), pages 85-109, June.
    10. Pater, Robert & Skica, Tomasz, 2014. "The productivity of public and private sector in Poland," Business and Economic Horizons (BEH), Prague Development Center (PRADEC), vol. 10(2), pages 1-18.
    11. Trofimov, Ivan D., 2020. "Health Care Spending and Economic Growth: Armey-Rahn Curve in a Panel of European Economies," MPRA Paper 106705, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    12. Shanaka Herath, 2012. "Size Of Government And Economic Growth: A Nonlinear Analysis," Economic Annals, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Belgrade, vol. 57(194), pages 7-30, July - Se.
    13. Lucas Menescal & José Alves, 2022. "Optimal threshold taxation: an empirical investigation for developing economies," Working Papers REM 2022/0232, ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics and Management, REM, Universidade de Lisboa.
    14. Nazlı KEYİFLİ & Sacit Hadi AKDEDE, 2020. "Political Polarization and Size of Government," Sosyoekonomi Journal, Sosyoekonomi Society, issue 28(44).
    15. Cambini, Carlo & Croce, Annalisa & Fumagalli, Elena, 2014. "Output-based incentive regulation in electricity distribution: Evidence from Italy," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 45(C), pages 205-216.
    16. J. Stephen Ferris, 2010. "Fiscal Policy from a Public Choice Perspective," Carleton Economic Papers 10-10, Carleton University, Department of Economics.
    17. Gabriel Villa & Sebastián Lozano, 2016. "DEA with non-monotonic variables. Application to EU governments’ macroeconomic efficiency," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 67(12), pages 1510-1523, December.
    18. Mroczek Teresa & Skica Tomasz & Rodzinka Jacek, 2018. "Application of Probabilistic Inference in Defining Impact of the General Government Sector’s Size on the Economy and Determining the Size of the Sector by the Economy in the EU," Financial Internet Quarterly (formerly e-Finanse), Sciendo, vol. 14(1), pages 1-11, March.
    19. Akram, Vaseem & Rath, Badri Narayan, 2020. "Optimum government size and economic growth in case of Indian states: Evidence from panel threshold model," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 88(C), pages 151-162.
    20. Muraközy, László, 2011. "Összefonódó költségvetési kihívások a 21. század Európájában [Interlocking budget challenges in 21st century Europe]," Közgazdasági Szemle (Economic Review - monthly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Közgazdasági Szemle Alapítvány (Economic Review Foundation), vol. 0(7), pages 592-618.
    21. Afrasiabi, Ahmadreza & Chalmardi, Mazyar Kaboli & Balezentis, Tomas, 2022. "A novel hybrid evaluation framework for public organizations based on employees’ performance factors," Evaluation and Program Planning, Elsevier, vol. 91(C).
    22. François Facchini & Mickaël Melki, 2011. "Optimal government size and economic growth in France (1871-2008) : An explanation by the State and market failures," Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers) halshs-00654363, HAL.
    23. E. Marrocu & R. Paci, 2024. "The influence of regional contextual factors on public university efficiency in Italy," Working Paper CRENoS 202424, Centre for North South Economic Research, University of Cagliari and Sassari, Sardinia.
    24. Hajamini, Mehdi & Falahi, Mohammad Ali, 2012. "Economic growth and the optimum size of government in 15 European countries: A threshold panel approach," MPRA Paper 39616, University Library of Munich, Germany.

  34. De Witte, Kristof & Marques, Rui, 2009. "Gaming in a benchmarking environment. A non-parametric analysis of benchmarking in the water sector," MPRA Paper 14679, University Library of Munich, Germany.

    Cited by:

    1. Santos, Joana & Simões, Pedro & Costa, Álvaro & Cunha Marques, Rui, 2010. "Efficiency of the Portuguese metros. is it different from other European metros?," MPRA Paper 34904, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Konstantinos Tsagarakis, 2013. "Does Size Matter? Operating Cost Coverage for Water Utilities," Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), Springer;European Water Resources Association (EWRA), vol. 27(5), pages 1551-1562, March.
    3. Molinos-Senante, María & Hernández-Sancho, Francesc & Mocholí-Arce, Manuel & Sala-Garrido, Ramón, 2014. "Economic and environmental performance of wastewater treatment plants: Potential reductions in greenhouse gases emissions," Resource and Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 38(C), pages 125-140.

  35. De Witte, Kristof & Mika, Kortelainen, 2009. "Blaming the exogenous environment? Conditional efficiency estimation with continuous and discrete exogenous variables," MPRA Paper 14034, University Library of Munich, Germany.

    Cited by:

    1. Li, Zhi & Ouyang, Xiaoling & Du, Kerui & Zhao, Yang, 2017. "Does government transparency contribute to improved eco-efficiency performance? An empirical study of 262 cities in China," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 110(C), pages 79-89.
    2. Weihua Su & Zhen Wang & Chonghui Zhang & Tomas Balezentis, 2023. "Determinants of the innovation efficiency of strategic emerging enterprises: evidence from the robust frontiers," Economic Change and Restructuring, Springer, vol. 56(3), pages 1433-1465, June.
    3. Michael Zschille, 2014. "Nonparametric measures of returns to scale: an application to German water supply," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 47(3), pages 1029-1053, November.
    4. Tajudeen, Ibrahim A., 2021. "The underlying drivers of economy-wide energy efficiency and asymmetric energy price responses," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 98(C).
    5. A. Ruijs & M. Kortelainen & A. Wossink & C.J.E. Schulp & R. Alkemade & Paul Madden, 2012. "Opportunity cost estimation of ecosystem services," Economics Discussion Paper Series 1222, Economics, The University of Manchester.
    6. Vidoli, Francesco, 2011. "Evaluating the water sector in Italy through a two stage method using the conditional robust nonparametric frontier and multivariate adaptive regression splines," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 212(3), pages 583-595, August.
    7. De Witte, K. & Van Klaveren, C., 2010. "How are Teachers Teaching? A Nonparametric Approach," Working Papers 36, Top Institute for Evidence Based Education Research.
    8. Nieswand, Maria & Baake, Pio & Wagner, Lilo, 2015. "Voting for Inefficiency," VfS Annual Conference 2015 (Muenster): Economic Development - Theory and Policy 113068, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
    9. Yao, Xin & Huang, Ruting & Du, Kerui, 2019. "The impacts of market power on power grid efficiency: Evidence from China," China Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 55(C), pages 99-110.

  36. De Witte, K., 2009. "Dropout from secondary education: All's well that begins well," Working Papers 14, Top Institute for Evidence Based Education Research.

    Cited by:

    1. De Witte, K. & Verschelde, M., 2010. "Estimating and explaining efficiency in a multilevel setting: A robust two-stage approach," Working Papers 17, Top Institute for Evidence Based Education Research.
    2. Heers, M. & Van Klaveren, C. & Groot, W. and Maassen van den Brink, H., 2012. "The Impact of Community Schools on Student Dropout in Pre-vocational Education," Working Papers 45, Top Institute for Evidence Based Education Research.

  37. Kristof DE WITTE & Nicky ROGGE, 2009. "Accounting for exogenous influences in a benevolent performance evaluation of teachers," Working Papers of Department of Economics, Leuven ces09.13, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Department of Economics, Leuven.

    Cited by:

    1. Leonardo Salvatore Alaimo & Emiliano Seri, 2024. "Measuring human development by means of composite indicators: open issues and new methodological tools," Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, Springer, vol. 58(6), pages 5275-5307, December.
    2. Fabio Pammolli & Francesco Porcelli & Francesco Vidoli & Guido Borà, 2014. "La spesa sanitaria delle Regioni in Italia - Saniregio 3," Working Papers CERM 02-2014, Competitività, Regole, Mercati (CERM).
    3. Fabio Pammolli & Francesco Porcelli & Francesco Vidoli & Monica Auteri & Guido Borà, 2017. "La spesa sanitaria delle Regioni in Italia - Saniregio2017," Working Papers CERM 01-2017, Competitività, Regole, Mercati (CERM).
    4. Rogge, Nicky, 2009. "Robust benevolent evaluations of teaching performance," Working Papers 2009/21, Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel, Faculteit Economie en Management.
    5. De Witte, K. & Rogge, N., 2010. "To publish or not to publish? On the aggregation and drivers of research performance," Working Papers 33, Top Institute for Evidence Based Education Research.
    6. Fabio Pammolli & Francesco Porcelli & Francesco Vidoli & Guido Borà, 2015. "La spesa sanitaria delle Regioni in Italia - Saniregio 2015," Working Papers CERM 01-2015, Competitività, Regole, Mercati (CERM), revised 04 Jan 2016.
    7. Vidoli, Francesco & Auteri, Monica, 2022. "Health-care demand and supply at municipal level: A spatial disaggregation approach," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 84(C).
    8. Francesco Vidoli & Elisa Fusco & Claudio Mazziotta, 2015. "Non-compensability in Composite Indicators: A Robust Directional Frontier Method," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 122(3), pages 635-652, July.

  38. Kristof DE WITTE & Mika KORTELAINEN, 2008. "Blaming the exogenous environment? Conditional efficiency estimation with continuous and discrete environmental variables," Working Papers of Department of Economics, Leuven ces0833, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Department of Economics, Leuven.

    Cited by:

    1. De Witte, Kristof & Rogge, Nicky, 2009. "Accounting for exogenous influences in a benevolent performance evaluation of teachers," Working Papers 2009/15, Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel, Faculteit Economie en Management.
    2. De Witte, K. & Verschelde, M., 2010. "Estimating and explaining efficiency in a multilevel setting: A robust two-stage approach," Working Papers 17, Top Institute for Evidence Based Education Research.
    3. Rogge, Nicky, 2009. "Granting teachers the 'benefit of the doubt' in performance evaluations," Working Papers 2009/17, Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel, Faculteit Economie en Management.
    4. Rogge, Nicky, 2009. "Robust benevolent evaluations of teaching performance," Working Papers 2009/21, Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel, Faculteit Economie en Management.
    5. De Witte, K. & Rogge, N., 2010. "To publish or not to publish? On the aggregation and drivers of research performance," Working Papers 33, Top Institute for Evidence Based Education Research.
    6. Sofia KOURTESI & Panos FOUSEKIS & Apostolos POLYMEROS, 2012. "Conditional Efficiency Estimation With Environmental Variables: Evidence From Greek Cereal Farms," Scientific Bulletin - Economic Sciences, University of Pitesti, vol. 11(1), pages 43-52.
    7. De Witte, K. & Van Klaveren, C., 2010. "How are Teachers Teaching? A Nonparametric Approach," Working Papers 36, Top Institute for Evidence Based Education Research.
    8. De Witte, Kristof & Mika, Kortelainen, 2009. "Blaming the exogenous environment? Conditional efficiency estimation with continuous and discrete exogenous variables," MPRA Paper 14034, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    9. De Witte, Kristof & Geys, Benny, 2010. "Evaluating efficient public good provision: Theory and evidence from a generalised conditional efficiency model for public libraries," Discussion Papers, Research Professorship & Project "The Future of Fiscal Federalism" SP II 2010-14, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.

  39. Kristof De Witte & Rui C. Marcques, 2008. "Big and beautiful? On non-parametrically measuring scale economies in non-convex technologies," Working Papers of Department of Economics, Leuven ces0822, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Department of Economics, Leuven.

    Cited by:

    1. Kristiaan Kerstens & Ignace Van de Woestyne, 2018. "Enumeration algorithms for FDH directional distance functions under different returns to scale assumptions," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 271(2), pages 1067-1078, December.
    2. Massarutto, Antonio & Grassetti, Luca & Lambardi di San Miniato, Michele & Moletta, Mattia, 2023. "Efficient firms are all alike, but every inefficient firm is such in its own way: Heterogeneity of costs determinants in the Italian water sector," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. 84(C).
    3. Saal, David S. & Arocena, Pablo & Maziotis, Alexandros & Triebs, Thomas, 2013. "Scale and Scope Economies and the Efficient Vertical and Horizontal Configuration of the Water Industry: A Survey of the Literature," Munich Reprints in Economics 59563, University of Munich, Department of Economics.
    4. Ferreira, D.C. & Marques, R.C. & Nunes, A.M., 2018. "Economies of scope in the health sector: The case of Portuguese hospitals," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 266(2), pages 716-735.
    5. Andrea Guerrini & Giulia Romano & Bettina Campedelli, 2013. "Economies of Scale, Scope, and Density in the Italian Water Sector: A Two-Stage Data Envelopment Analysis Approach," Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), Springer;European Water Resources Association (EWRA), vol. 27(13), pages 4559-4578, October.
    6. Zschille, Michael, 2012. "Consolidating the Water Industry: An Analysis of the Potential Gains from Horizontal Integration in a Conditional Efficiency Fr," CEPR Discussion Papers 8737, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    7. Michael Zschille, 2014. "Nonparametric measures of returns to scale: an application to German water supply," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 47(3), pages 1029-1053, November.
    8. Diogo Cunha Ferreira & Rui Cunha Marques, 2020. "A step forward on order-α robust nonparametric method: inclusion of weight restrictions, convexity and non-variable returns to scale," Operational Research, Springer, vol. 20(2), pages 1011-1046, June.
    9. Nickolaos G. Tzeremes, 2019. "Technological change, technological catch-up and export orientation: evidence from Latin American Countries," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 52(1), pages 85-100, December.
    10. Michael Zschille, 2014. "Marktstrukturen in der Trinkwasserversorgung," DIW Roundup: Politik im Fokus 43, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research.
    11. Michael Zschille, 2016. "Cost Structure and Economies of Scale in German Water Supply," Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin 1576, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research.
    12. José Antonio Palomero-González & Vicent Almenar-Llongo & Ramón Fuentes-Pascual, 2021. "Evaluating the Efficiency of Water Distribution Network Sectors Using the DEA-Weight Russell Directional Distance Model: The Case of the City of Valencia (Spain)," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(19), pages 1-21, September.
    13. Michael Zschille, 2012. "Consolidating the Water Industry: An Analysis of the Potential Gains from Horizontal Integration in a Conditional Efficiency Framework," Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin 1187, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research.
    14. Adel Hatami-Marbini & Zahra Ghelej Beigi & Jens Leth Hougaard & Kobra Gholami, 2014. "Estimating Returns to Scale in Imprecise Data Envelopment Analysis," MSAP Working Paper Series 07_2014, University of Copenhagen, Department of Food and Resource Economics.
    15. Chavas, Jean-Paul & Kim, Kwansoo, 2013. "Nonparametric Analysis of Technology and Productivity under Non-Convexity," 2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C. 149684, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    16. Guerrini, Andrea & Romano, Giulia & Leardini, Chiara, 2018. "Economies of scale and density in the Italian water industry: A stochastic frontier approach," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. 52(C), pages 103-111.
    17. Jean-Paul Chavas & Kwansoo Kim, 2015. "Nonparametric analysis of technology and productivity under non-convexity: a neighborhood-based approach," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 43(1), pages 59-74, February.
    18. Brandon Pope & Andrew Johnson, 2013. "Returns to scope: a metric for production synergies demonstrated for hospital production," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 40(2), pages 239-250, October.
    19. De Witte, Kristof & Mika, Kortelainen, 2009. "Blaming the exogenous environment? Conditional efficiency estimation with continuous and discrete exogenous variables," MPRA Paper 14034, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    20. Meihong Dai & Xianneng Li & Yuduo Lu, 2017. "How Urbanization Economies Impact TFP of R&D Performers: Evidence from China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 9(10), pages 1-17, September.
    21. Michael Zschille, 2015. "Consolidating the water industry: an analysis of the potential gains from horizontal integration in a conditional efficiency framework," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 44(1), pages 97-114, August.
    22. Giulia Romano & Andrea Guerrini & Rui Cunha Marques, 2017. "European Water Utility Management: Promoting Efficiency, Innovation and Knowledge in the Water Industry," Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), Springer;European Water Resources Association (EWRA), vol. 31(8), pages 2349-2353, June.

  40. Laurens Cherchye & Kristof De Witte & Erwin Ooghe, 2008. "Equity and efficiency in private and public education: a nonparametric comparison," Working Papers of Department of Economics, Leuven ces0725, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Department of Economics, Leuven.

    Cited by:

    1. Cordero Ferrera, Jose Manuel & Alonso Morán, Edurne & Nuño Solís, Roberto & Orueta, Juan F. & Souto Arce, Regina, 2013. "Efficiency assessment of primary care providers: A conditional nonparametric approach," MPRA Paper 51926, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Manuel Antonio Muñiz Pérez & Javier Suárez Pandiello, 2011. "Educación en valores y competencias sociales: Diferencias (o no) entre institutos públicos y colegios concertados," Investigaciones de Economía de la Educación volume 6, in: Antonio Caparrós Ruiz (ed.), Investigaciones de Economía de la Educación 6, edition 1, volume 6, chapter 12, pages 208-222, Asociación de Economía de la Educación.
    3. Halkos, George & Tzeremes, Nickolaos, 2011. "Adjusting for cultural effects on countries’ education policy efficiency:an application of conditional full frontiers measures," MPRA Paper 30098, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. Bucciarelli Edgardo & Odoardi Iacopo & Pagliari Carmen & Tateo Armando, 2011. "American And Italian Perspectives On Public And Private Education Choices," Annals of Faculty of Economics, University of Oradea, Faculty of Economics, vol. 1(1), pages 167-172, July.
    5. M. Portela & A. Camanho & A. Keshvari, 2013. "Assessing the evolution of school performance and value-added: trends over four years," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 39(1), pages 1-14, February.
    6. Hong Son Nghiem & Ha Trong Nguyen & Luke B Connelly, 2016. "The Efficiency of Australian Schools: A nationwide analysis using gains in test scores of students as outputs," Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre Working Paper series WP1603, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre (BCEC), Curtin Business School.
    7. Nghiem, Son & Nguyen, Ha & Connelly, Luke, 2014. "The Efficiency of Australian Schools: Evidence from the NAPLAN Data 2009-2011," MPRA Paper 56231, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    8. Cordero, José Manuel & Prior, Diego & Simancas Rodríguez, Rosa, 2013. "A comparison of public and private schools in Spain using robust nonparametric frontier methods," MPRA Paper 51375, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    9. Halkos, George & Tzeremes, Nickolaos, 2011. "Applying conditional DEA to measure football clubs’ performance: Evidence from the top 25 European clubs," MPRA Paper 31278, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    10. George Halkos & Nickolaos Tzeremes, 2013. "National culture and eco-efficiency: an application of conditional partial nonparametric frontiers," Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, Springer;Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies - SEEPS, vol. 15(4), pages 423-441, October.
    11. De Witte, Kristof & Mika, Kortelainen, 2009. "Blaming the exogenous environment? Conditional efficiency estimation with continuous and discrete exogenous variables," MPRA Paper 14034, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    12. Zuzana Kučerová, 2012. "Measuring of Efficiency in the Public and Private Sector - Current Research Approaches [Měření efektivity ve veřejném a soukromém sektoru - rešerše dosavadních přístupů]," Český finanční a účetní časopis, Prague University of Economics and Business, vol. 2012(2), pages 110-125.

  41. Kristof De Witte & David S. Saal, 2008. "Is a little sunshine all we need? On the impact of sunshine regulation on profits, productivity and prices in the Dutch drinking water sector," Working Papers of Department of Economics, Leuven ces0828, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Department of Economics, Leuven.

    Cited by:

    1. Antonio Estache & Emili Griffel-Tatjé, 2011. "Assessing the Impact of Mali's Water Privatization across Stakeholders," Working Papers ECARES ECARES 2011-031, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
    2. Chang, Jun-Jie & Mi, Zhifu & Wei, Yi-Ming, 2023. "Temperature and GDP: A review of climate econometrics analysis," Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Elsevier, vol. 66(C), pages 383-392.
    3. Vilarinho, Hermilio & D’Inverno, Giovanna & Nóvoa, Henriqueta & Camanho, Ana S., 2023. "The measurement of asset management performance of water companies," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 87(PA).
    4. D'Inverno, Giovanna & Moesen, Wim & De Witte, Kristof, 2022. "Local government size and service level provision. Evidence from conditional non-parametric analysis," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 81(C).
    5. Mocholi-Arce, Manuel & Sala-Garrido, Ramon & Molinos-Senante, Maria & Maziotis, Alexandros, 2023. "Profit productivity change in the English and Welsh water sector: Impact of the price reviews," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. 82(C).
    6. Chen, Xiaoguang & Yang, Lu, 2019. "Temperature and industrial output: Firm-level evidence from China," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 95(C), pages 257-274.
    7. Hellwig, Michael & Polk, Andreas, 2021. "Do political links influence water prices? Determinants of water prices in Germany," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. 70(C).
    8. Walter, Matthias & Cullmann, Astrid & von Hirschhausen, Christian & Wand, Robert & Zschille, Michael, 2009. "Quo vadis efficiency analysis of water distribution? A comparative literature review," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. 17(3-4), pages 225-232, September.
    9. Goh, Kim Huat & See, Kok Fong, 2021. "Measuring the productivity growth of Malaysia's water sector: Implications for regulatory reform," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. 71(C).
    10. Romano, Giulia & Guerrini, Andrea & Campedelli, Bettina, 2015. "The new Italian water tariff method: A launching point for novel infrastructures or a backwards step?," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. 34(C), pages 45-53.
    11. Zhang, Dongyang & Liu, Deqiang, 2017. "Determinants of the capital structure of Chinese non-listed enterprises: Is TFP efficient?," Economic Systems, Elsevier, vol. 41(2), pages 179-202.
    12. Molinos-Senante, María & Maziotis, Alexandros & Sala-Garrido, Ramón, 2020. "Changes in the total costs of the English and Welsh water and sewerage industry: The decomposed effect of price and quantity inputs on efficiency," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. 66(C).
    13. Driffield, Nigel L. & Mickiewicz, Tomasz & Temouri, Yama, 2013. "Institutional reforms, productivity and profitability: From rents to competition?," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 41(2), pages 583-600.
    14. Reynaud, Arnaud & Thomas, Alban, 2013. "Firm's profitability and regulation in water and network industries: An empirical analysis," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. 24(C), pages 48-58.
    15. Ben Amor, Tawfik & Mellah, Thuraya, 2023. "Cost efficiency of Tunisian water utility districts: Does heterogeneity matter?," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. 84(C).
    16. Pereira, Miguel Alves & Marques, Rui Cunha, 2022. "Is sunshine regulation the new prescription to brighten up public hospitals in Portugal?," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 84(C).
    17. Salazar-Adams, Alejandro, 2021. "The efficiency of post-reform water utilities in Mexico," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. 68(C).
    18. Barbosa, Alexandro & Brusca, Isabel, 2015. "Governance structures and their impact on tariff levels of Brazilian water and sanitation corporations," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. 34(C), pages 94-105.
    19. Mellah, Thuraya & Ben Amor, Tawfik, 2016. "Performance of the Tunisian Water Utility: An input-distance function approach," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. 38(C), pages 18-32.

  42. Kristof De Witte & Rui C. Marques, 2008. "Capturing the environment, a metafrontier approach to the drinking water sector," Working Papers of Department of Economics, Leuven ces0804, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Department of Economics, Leuven.

    Cited by:

    1. Mercedes Beltrán-Esteve & José A. Gómez-Limón & Andrés J. Picazo-Tadeo & Ernest Reig-Martínez, 2012. "A metafrontier directional distance function approach to assessing eco-efficiency," Working Papers 1206, Department of Applied Economics II, Universidad de Valencia.
    2. Graziano Abrate & Fabrizio Erbetta & Giovanni Fraquelli, 2011. "Public utility planning and cost efficiency in a decentralized regulation context: the case of the Italian integrated water service," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 35(3), pages 227-242, June.
    3. Steven Renzetti & Diane P. Dupont, 2008. "Measuring the Technical Efficiency of Municipal Water Suppliers: the Role of Environmental Factors," Working Papers 0802, Brock University, Department of Economics.
    4. Kristof De Witte & Wim Groot & Henri?tte Maassen van den Brink, 2012. "The Efficiency of Education in Generating Literacy: A Stochastic Frontier Approach," Review of Economics & Finance, Better Advances Press, Canada, vol. 2, pages 25-37, February.
    5. Shinji Yane & Sanford Berg, 2013. "Sensitivity analysis of efficiency rankings to distributional assumptions: applications to Japanese water utilities," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 45(17), pages 2337-2348, June.
    6. Kristof De Witte & David S. Saal, 2008. "Is a little sunshine all we need? On the impact of sunshine regulation on profits, productivity and prices in the Dutch drinking water sector," Working Papers of Department of Economics, Leuven ces0828, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Department of Economics, Leuven.
    7. Giulia Romano & Nicola Salvati & Andrea Guerrini, 2014. "Factors Affecting Water Utility Companies’ Decision to Promote the Reduction of Household Water Consumption," Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), Springer;European Water Resources Association (EWRA), vol. 28(15), pages 5491-5505, December.

  43. Kristof De Witte & Elbert Dijkgraaf, 2007. "Mean and Bold?," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 07-092/3, Tinbergen Institute.

    Cited by:

    1. Mande Buafua, Patrick, 2015. "Efficiency of urban water supply in Sub-Saharan Africa: Do organization and regulation matter?," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. 37(C), pages 13-22.
    2. Jos L. T. Blank & Bert Enserink & Alex A. S. van Heezik, 2019. "Policy Reforms and Productivity Change in the Dutch Drinking Water Industry: A Time Series Analysis 1980–2015," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(12), pages 1-14, June.
    3. Ferro, Gustavo & Lentini, Emilio & Mercadier, Augusto & Romero, Carlos A., 2010. "Retornos a escala en agua y saneamiento: estimaciones para América Latina [Returns to scale in water and sanitation: estimates for Latin Amercia]," MPRA Paper 20324, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised Jan 2010.
    4. De Witte, Kristof & Marques, Rui, 2009. "Gaming in a benchmarking environment. A non-parametric analysis of benchmarking in the water sector," MPRA Paper 14679, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    5. Kristof De Witte & Rui Marques, 2010. "Designing performance incentives, an international benchmark study in the water sector," Central European Journal of Operations Research, Springer;Slovak Society for Operations Research;Hungarian Operational Research Society;Czech Society for Operations Research;Österr. Gesellschaft für Operations Research (ÖGOR);Slovenian Society Informatika - Section for Operational Research;Croatian Operational Research Society, vol. 18(2), pages 189-220, June.
    6. Ferro, Gustavo & Romero, Carlos A. & Covelli, María Paula, 2011. "Regulation and performance: A production frontier estimate for the Latin American water and sanitation sector," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. 19(4), pages 211-217.

  44. Kristof De Witte & Rui C. Marques, 2007. "Designing incenttives in local public utilities, an international comparison of the drinking water sector," Working Papers of Department of Economics, Leuven ces0732, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Department of Economics, Leuven.

    Cited by:

    1. Rita Martins & Fernando Coelho & Adelino Fortunato, 2008. "Water Losses and Hydrographical Regions Influence on the Cost Structure of the Portuguese Water Industry," GEMF Working Papers 2008-06, GEMF, Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra.
    2. Halkos, George & Tzeremes, Nickolaos, 2011. "A conditional full frontier modelling for analyzing environmental efficiency and economic growth," MPRA Paper 32839, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. De Witte, Kristof & Marques, Rui, 2009. "Gaming in a benchmarking environment. A non-parametric analysis of benchmarking in the water sector," MPRA Paper 14679, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. George Halkos & Nickolaos Tzeremes, 2014. "Measuring the effect of Kyoto protocol agreement on countries’ environmental efficiency in CO 2 emissions: an application of conditional full frontiers," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 41(3), pages 367-382, June.
    5. Halkos, George & Tzeremes, Nickolaos, 2011. "A conditional full frontier approach for investigating the Averch-Johnson effect," MPRA Paper 35491, University Library of Munich, Germany.

Articles

  1. Gambi, Letizia & De Witte, Kristof, 2024. "The resilience in test scores and the mitigating effect of summer schools one year after the COVID-19 school closures," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 90(C).

    Cited by:

    1. Gajderowicz, Tomasz & Jakubowski, Maciej & Kennedy, Alec & Christrup Kjeldsen, Christian & Patrinos, Harry Anthony & Strietholt, Rolf, 2024. "The Learning Crisis: Three Years After Covid-19," GLO Discussion Paper Series 1543, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
    2. Bruna Campisano & Giuseppe Migali & Steve Bradley, 2024. "Spatial Variations in the Impact of Covid-19 on the Educational Gender Gap in English Secondary Schools," Working Papers 415678839, Lancaster University Management School, Economics Department.

  2. D’Inverno, Giovanna & Vidoli, Francesco & De Witte, Kristof, 2023. "Sustainable budgeting and financial balance: Which lever will you pull?," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 309(2), pages 857-871.

    Cited by:

    1. Kristof De Witte & Panagiotis Takis ILIOPOULOS, 2023. "The Expenditure Composition and Trade-offs in Local Government Budgets," Working Papers of LEER - Leuven Economics of Education Research 746856, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), LEER - Leuven Economics of Education Research.

  3. Titl, Vitezslav & De Witte, Kristof, 2022. "How politics influence public good provision," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 81(C).

    Cited by:

    1. Víctor Giménez & Diego Prior & Claudio Thieme & Emili Tortosa-Ausina, 2021. "International comparisons of the COVID-19 pandemic management: What can be learned from activity analysis techniques?," Working Papers 2021/12, Economics Department, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón (Spain).
    2. Vidoli, Francesco & Auteri, Monica & Marinuzzi, Giorgia & Tortorella, Walter, 2023. "Spatial interdependence in cost efficiency and local government optimal size: The case of Italian municipalities," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 86(C).

  4. D'Inverno, Giovanna & Moesen, Wim & De Witte, Kristof, 2022. "Local government size and service level provision. Evidence from conditional non-parametric analysis," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 81(C).
    See citations under working paper version above.
  5. De Beckker, Kenneth & De Witte, Kristof & Van Campenhout, Geert, 2021. "The effect of financial education on students’ consumer choices: Evidence from a randomized experiment," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 188(C), pages 962-976.

    Cited by:

    1. Tim Kaiser & Annamaria Lusardi, 2024. "Financial Literacy and Financial Education: An Overview," NBER Working Papers 32355, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    2. Tommaso Agasisti & Alessio D'Ignazio & Gabriele Iannotta & Angela Romagnoli & Marco Tonello, 2024. "As soon as possible: the effectiveness of a financial education program in Italian schools," Temi di discussione (Economic working papers) 1464, Bank of Italy, Economic Research and International Relations Area.
    3. Ginevra Buratti & Alessio D'Ignazio, 2024. "Improving the effectiveness of financial education programs. A targeting approach," Journal of Consumer Affairs, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 58(2), pages 451-485, June.
    4. Gabriele Iannotta & Marta Cannistrà & Tommaso Agasisti, 2024. "It's never too late to be financially literate: Evaluating a financial education intervention for adults in Italy," Journal of Consumer Affairs, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 58(2), pages 397-431, June.
    5. Maldonado, Joana Elisa & De Witte, Kristof, 2021. "The impact of information provision to parents: Experimental evidence on student outcomes," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, Elsevier, vol. 31(C).
    6. Pitthan, Francisco & De Witte, Kristof, 2024. "Do heuristics matter for financial literacy? The impact of better heuristics awareness to financial literacy," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 67(PB).

  6. Oleg Badunenko & Deni Mazrekaj & Subal C. Kumbhakar & Kristof Witte, 2021. "Persistent and transient inefficiency in adult education," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 60(6), pages 2925-2942, June.

    Cited by:

    1. Badunenko, Oleg & D’Inverno, Giovanna & De Witte, Kristof, 2023. "On distinguishing the direct causal effect of an intervention from its efficiency-enhancing effects," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 310(1), pages 432-447.
    2. Badunenko, Oleg & Myeki, Lindikaya W, 2023. "Multidimensional Analysis of Attainment of Higher Education Goals in South Africa’s Public Universities: Access, Quality, Diversity, Success and Efficiency," MPRA Paper 121565, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. Badunenko, Oleg & Myeki, Lindikaya W, 2023. "Multidimensional Analysis of Attainment of Higher Education Goals in South Africa’s Public Universities: Access, Quality, Diversity, Success and Efficiency," MPRA Paper 121570, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. Yuhang Han & Yi Zhou & Sarah Carr & Jiaoyan Jiang, 2024. "Lifelong learning in the workplace: the knowledge management role of corporate universities in China," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 11(1), pages 1-11, December.

  7. Titl, Vitezslav & De Witte, Kristof & Geys, Benny, 2021. "Political donations, public procurement and government efficiency," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 148(C).
    See citations under working paper version above.
  8. D’Inverno, Giovanna & Smet, Mike & De Witte, Kristof, 2021. "Impact evaluation in a multi-input multi-output setting: Evidence on the effect of additional resources for schools," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 290(3), pages 1111-1124.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  9. Pitthan, Francisco & De Witte, Kristof, 2021. "Puzzles of insurance demand and its biases: A survey on the role of behavioural biases and financial literacy on insurance demand," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, Elsevier, vol. 30(C).

    Cited by:

    1. Chen, Chuna & Tan, Zhuomin & Liu, Song, 2024. "How does financial literacy affect households’ financial fragility? The role of insurance awareness," International Review of Economics & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 95(C).
    2. Hwang, In Do, 2024. "Behavioral aspects of household portfolio choice: Effects of loss aversion on life insurance uptake and savings," International Review of Economics & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 89(PA), pages 1029-1053.
    3. AlSuwaidi, Reem Ahmed & Mertzanis, Charilaos, 2024. "Financial literacy and FinTech market growth around the world," International Review of Financial Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 95(PB).
    4. Lifei Gao & Li Wang & Shouji Sun & Guojun Wang & Xuemeng Ding, 2023. "Does Music Encourage Residents to Purchase Commercial Insurance? Evidence From China," SAGE Open, , vol. 13(3), pages 21582440231, September.
    5. Ignacio Ibarra López & Juan Antonio Tapia Cortés, 2022. "El uso de productos financieros en la demanda de seguros en México," Remef - Revista Mexicana de Economía y Finanzas Nueva Época REMEF (The Mexican Journal of Economics and Finance), Instituto Mexicano de Ejecutivos de Finanzas, IMEF, vol. 17(3), pages 1-26, Julio - S.
    6. Selim Mankaï & Sébastien Marchand & Ngoc Ha Le, 2024. "Valuing insurance against small probability risks: A meta-analysis," Post-Print hal-04474880, HAL.
    7. Bongini, Paola & Cucinelli, Doriana & Soana, Maria Gaia, 2023. "Insurance holdings: Does individual insurance literacy matter?," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 58(PC).
    8. Markus Rieger‐Fels, 2024. "Why do people buy insurance? A modern answer to an old question," Risk Management and Insurance Review, American Risk and Insurance Association, vol. 27(1), pages 89-114, April.
    9. M. Mercè Claramunt & Maite Mármol & Xavier Varea, 2023. "Facing a Risk: To Insure or Not to Insure—An Analysis with the Constant Relative Risk Aversion Utility Function," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 11(5), pages 1-13, February.
    10. Zarifis, Alex & Cheng, Xusen, 2022. "A model of trust in Fintech and trust in Insurtech: How Artificial Intelligence and the context influence it," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, Elsevier, vol. 36(C).
    11. Michael Schuhen & Susanne Kollmann & Minou Seitz & Gunnar Mau & Manuel Froitzheim, 2022. "Financial Literacy of Adults in Germany FILSA Study Results," JRFM, MDPI, vol. 15(11), pages 1-17, October.
    12. Hwang, In Do, 2021. "Prospect theory and insurance demand: Empirical evidence on the role of loss aversion," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), Elsevier, vol. 95(C).
    13. Pitthan, Francisco & De Witte, Kristof, 2024. "Do heuristics matter for financial literacy? The impact of better heuristics awareness to financial literacy," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 67(PB).
    14. Chaitanya Joshi & Jinming Yang & Sergeja Slapnicar & Ryan K L Ko, 2024. "Contrasting the optimal resource allocation to cybersecurity and cyber insurance using prospect theory versus expected utility theory," Papers 2411.18838, arXiv.org.

  10. Oleg Badunenko & Deni Mazrekaj & Subal C. Kumbhakar & Kristof Witte, 2021. "Correction to: Persistent and transient inefficiency in adult education," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 61(6), pages 3559-3560, December.

    Cited by:

    1. Badunenko, Oleg & D’Inverno, Giovanna & De Witte, Kristof, 2023. "On distinguishing the direct causal effect of an intervention from its efficiency-enhancing effects," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 310(1), pages 432-447.
    2. Badunenko, Oleg & Myeki, Lindikaya W, 2023. "Multidimensional Analysis of Attainment of Higher Education Goals in South Africa’s Public Universities: Access, Quality, Diversity, Success and Efficiency," MPRA Paper 121565, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. Badunenko, Oleg & Myeki, Lindikaya W, 2023. "Multidimensional Analysis of Attainment of Higher Education Goals in South Africa’s Public Universities: Access, Quality, Diversity, Success and Efficiency," MPRA Paper 121570, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. Yuhang Han & Yi Zhou & Sarah Carr & Jiaoyan Jiang, 2024. "Lifelong learning in the workplace: the knowledge management role of corporate universities in China," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 11(1), pages 1-11, December.

  11. Kenneth De Beckker & Kristof De Witte & Geert Van Campenhout, 2020. "The role of national culture in financial literacy: Cross‐country evidence," Journal of Consumer Affairs, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 54(3), pages 912-930, September.

    Cited by:

    1. Andrej Cupak & Pirmin Fessler & Maria Antoinette Silgoner & Elisabeth Ulbrich, 2018. "Exploring differences in financial literacy across countries: the role of individual characteristics and institutions," Working Papers 220, Oesterreichische Nationalbank (Austrian Central Bank).
    2. Lo Prete, Anna, 2024. "Political participation and financial education: Understanding personal and collective tradeoffs for a better citizenship," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 244(C).
    3. María-Jesús Gallego-Losada & Antonio Montero-Navarro & Rocío Gallego-Losada & José-Luis Rodríguez-Sánchez, 2024. "Measuring financial divide in the rural environment. The potential role of the digital transformation of finance," International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, Springer, vol. 20(4), pages 2791-2810, December.
    4. Ooi, Elizabeth, 2023. "Culture and confidence in financial knowledge testing," Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Elsevier, vol. 77(C).
    5. Susanna Levantesi & Giulia Zacchia, 2021. "Machine Learning and Financial Literacy: An Exploration of Factors Influencing Financial Knowledge in Italy," JRFM, MDPI, vol. 14(3), pages 1-21, March.
    6. Szilárd Heged?s & Csaba Lentner, 2024. "Examining financial literacy and the financial aspects of Hofstede's four-factor culture model in Hungary," Remef - Revista Mexicana de Economía y Finanzas Nueva Época REMEF (The Mexican Journal of Economics and Finance), Instituto Mexicano de Ejecutivos de Finanzas, IMEF, vol. 19(1), pages 1-20, Enero - M.
    7. Florina Guadalupe Arredondo-Trapero & Eva María Guerra-Leal & José Carlos Vázquez-Parra, 2023. "Differences in the Destination of Savings According to Gender, and Its Economic Rights Implications," JRFM, MDPI, vol. 16(7), pages 1-18, July.
    8. Shishir Shakya & Nabamita Dutta, 2024. "How Individualism Influences Female Financial Inclusion through Education: Evidence from Historical Prevalence of Infectious Diseases," Working Papers 24-03, Department of Economics, Appalachian State University.
    9. Shishir Shakya & Nabamita Dutta, 2024. "How Individualism Influences Female Financial Inclusion through Education: Evidence from Historical Prevalence of Infectious Diseases," Working Papers 24-07, Department of Economics, Appalachian State University.

  12. D’Inverno, Giovanna & De Witte, Kristof, 2020. "Service level provision in municipalities: A flexible directional distance composite indicator," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 286(3), pages 1129-1141.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  13. Iterbeke, Kaat & De Witte, Kristof & Declercq, Koen & Schelfhout, Wouter, 2020. "The effect of ability matching and differentiated instruction in financial literacy education. Evidence from two randomised control trials," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 78(C).
    See citations under working paper version above.
  14. Fritz Schiltz & Kristof Witte & Deni Mazrekaj, 2020. "Managerial efficiency and efficiency differentials in adult education: a conditional and bias-corrected efficiency analysis," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 288(2), pages 529-546, May.

    Cited by:

    1. Faten Ben Bouheni & Hassan Obeid & Elena Margarint, 2022. "Nonperforming loan of European Islamic banks over the economic cycle," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 313(2), pages 773-808, June.
    2. Alda A. Henriques & Milton Fontes & Ana S. Camanho & Giovanna D’Inverno & Pedro Amorim & Jaime Gabriel Silva, 2022. "Performance evaluation of problematic samples: a robust nonparametric approach for wastewater treatment plants," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 315(1), pages 193-220, August.
    3. Oleg Badunenko & Deni Mazrekaj & Subal C. Kumbhakar & Kristof Witte, 2021. "Persistent and transient inefficiency in adult education," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 60(6), pages 2925-2942, June.

  15. Schiltz, Fritz & Mazrekaj, Deni & Horn, Daniel & De Witte, Kristof, 2019. "Does it matter when your smartest peers leave your class? Evidence from Hungary," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 59(C), pages 79-91.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  16. Deni Mazrekaj & Kristof De Witte & Sarah Vansteenkiste, 2019. "Labour market consequences of a high school diploma," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 51(21), pages 2313-2325, May.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  17. Laurens Cherchye & Kristof De Witte & Sergio Perelman, 2019. "A unified productivity-performance approach applied to secondary schools," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 70(9), pages 1522-1537, September.

    Cited by:

    1. Zohreh Moghaddas & Alireza Amirteimoori & Reza Kazemi Matin, 2022. "Selective proportionality and integer-valued data in DEA: an application to performance evaluation of high schools," Operational Research, Springer, vol. 22(4), pages 3435-3459, September.
    2. Agasisti, Tommaso & de Oliveira Ribeiro, Celma & Montemor, Daniel Sanches, 2022. "The efficiency of Brazilian elementary public schools," International Journal of Educational Development, Elsevier, vol. 93(C).
    3. Juan Aparicio & Sergio Perelman & Daniel Santín, 2022. "Comparing the evolution of productivity and performance gaps in education systems through DEA: an application to Latin American countries," Operational Research, Springer, vol. 22(2), pages 1443-1477, April.
    4. Stylianos Gr. Margaritis & Constantinos P. Tsamadias & Elias E. Argyropoulos, 2022. "Investigating the Relative Efficiency and Productivity Change of Upper Secondary Schools: the Case of Schools in the Region of Central Greece," Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Springer;Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), vol. 13(1), pages 128-160, March.
    5. D'Inverno, Giovanna & Moesen, Wim & De Witte, Kristof, 2022. "Local government size and service level provision. Evidence from conditional non-parametric analysis," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 81(C).
    6. Víctor Giménez & Diego Prior & Claudio Thieme & Emili Tortosa-Ausina, 2021. "International comparisons of the COVID-19 pandemic management: What can be learned from activity analysis techniques?," Working Papers 2021/12, Economics Department, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón (Spain).
    7. D’Inverno, Giovanna & Smet, Mike & De Witte, Kristof, 2021. "Impact evaluation in a multi-input multi-output setting: Evidence on the effect of additional resources for schools," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 290(3), pages 1111-1124.
    8. Nsabimana, René & Perelman, Sergio & Walheer, Barnabé & Mapapa, Mbangala, 2024. "Effectiveness and efficiency in access to reliable electricity: The case of East African countries," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 93(C).
    9. Oleg Badunenko & Deni Mazrekaj & Subal C. Kumbhakar & Kristof Witte, 2021. "Persistent and transient inefficiency in adult education," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 60(6), pages 2925-2942, June.

  18. Schiltz, Fritz & Sestito, Paolo & Agasisti, Tommaso & De Witte, Kristof, 2018. "The added value of more accurate predictions for school rankings," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 67(C), pages 207-215.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  19. De Witte, Kristof & Schiltz, Fritz, 2018. "Measuring and explaining organizational effectiveness of school districts: Evidence from a robust and conditional Benefit-of-the-Doubt approach," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 267(3), pages 1172-1181.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  20. De Witte, Kristof & Geys, Benny & Schönhage, Nanna Lauritz, 2018. "Strategic public policy around population thresholds," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 106(C), pages 46-58.

    Cited by:

    1. Daniele, Gianmarco & Romarri, Alessio & Vertier, Paul, 2021. "Dynasties and policymaking," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 190(C), pages 89-110.
    2. D'Inverno, Giovanna & Moesen, Wim & De Witte, Kristof, 2022. "Local government size and service level provision. Evidence from conditional non-parametric analysis," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 81(C).
    3. D’Inverno, Giovanna & Vidoli, Francesco & De Witte, Kristof, 2023. "Sustainable budgeting and financial balance: Which lever will you pull?," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 309(2), pages 857-871.

  21. Masci, Chiara & De Witte, Kristof & Agasisti, Tommaso, 2018. "The influence of school size, principal characteristics and school management practices on educational performance: An efficiency analysis of Italian students attending middle schools," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 61(C), pages 52-69.

    Cited by:

    1. Francois-Xavier Ladant & Julien Hedou & Paolo Sestito & Falco J. Bargagli-Stoffi, 2023. "What is essential is visible to the eye: Saliency in primary school ranking and its effect on academic achievements," Papers 2302.10026, arXiv.org, revised Jan 2024.
    2. Cavalieri, Marina & Finocchiaro Castro, Massimo & Guccio, Calogero, 2021. "Does the Fish Rot from the Head? Organised Crime and Educational Outcomes in Southern Italy," EconStor Preprints 228976, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.
    3. K. Kounetas & G. Androulakis & M. Kaisari & G. Manousakis, 2023. "Educational reforms and secondary school's efficiency performance in Greece: a bootstrap DEA and multilevel approach," Operational Research, Springer, vol. 23(1), pages 1-29, March.
    4. Queiroz, Marcelo Victor Alves Bila & Sampaio, Raquel Menezes Bezerra & Sampaio, Luciano Menezes Bezerra, 2020. "Dynamic efficiency of primary education in Brazil: Socioeconomic and infrastructure influence on school performance," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 70(C).
    5. Vittadini, Giorgio & Sturaro, Caterina & Folloni, Giuseppe, 2022. "Non-Cognitive Skills and Cognitive Skills to measure school efficiency," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 81(C).
    6. Camanho, Ana S. & Varriale, Luisa & Barbosa, Flávia & Sobral, Thiago, 2021. "Performance assessment of upper secondary schools in Italian regions using a circular pseudo-Malmquist index," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 289(3), pages 1188-1208.
    7. Oana Borcan & James Merewood, 2022. "Positive Disruption? Meritocratic Principal Selection and Student Achievement," University of East Anglia School of Economics Working Paper Series 2022-11, School of Economics, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK..
    8. Cavalieri, Marina & Finocchiaro Castro, Massimo & Guccio, Calogero, 2023. "Organised crime and educational outcomes in Southern Italy: An empirical investigation," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 89(C).
    9. Mayerle, Sérgio F. & Rodrigues, Hidelbrando F. & Neiva de Figueiredo, João & De Genaro Chiroli, Daiane M., 2022. "Optimal student/school/class/teacher/classroom matching to support efficient public school system resource allocation," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 83(C).

  22. Minviel, Jean Joseph & De Witte, Kristof, 2017. "The influence of public subsidies on farm technical efficiency: A robust conditional nonparametric approach," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 259(3), pages 1112-1120.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  23. Eline Sneyers & Kristof De Witte, 2017. "The interaction between dropout, graduation rates and quality ratings in universities," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 68(4), pages 416-430, April.

    Cited by:

    1. Ma, Zhanxin & See, Kok Fong & Yu, Ming-Miin & Zhao, Chunying, 2021. "Research efficiency analysis of China's university faculty members: A modified meta-frontier DEA approach," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 76(C).
    2. Oleg Badunenko & Deni Mazrekaj & Subal C. Kumbhakar & Kristof Witte, 2021. "Persistent and transient inefficiency in adult education," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 60(6), pages 2925-2942, June.
    3. Badiee, Aghdas & Moshtari, Mohammad & Berenguer, Gemma, 2024. "A systematic review of operations research and management science modeling techniques in the study of higher education institutions," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 93(C).

  24. Kristof De Witte & Laura López-Torres, 2017. "Efficiency in education: a review of literature and a way forward," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 68(4), pages 339-363, April.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  25. Sofie J. Cabus & Kristof De Witte, 2016. "Why Do Students Leave Education Early? Theory and Evidence on High School Dropout Rates," Journal of Forecasting, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 35(8), pages 690-702, December.

    Cited by:

    1. Enrico Ripamonti & Stefano Barberis, 2018. "The Effect of Cultural Capital on High School Dropout: An Investigation in the Italian Provinces," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 139(3), pages 1257-1279, October.
    2. Erica Raimondi & Loris Vergolini, 2017. "‘Everyone in School’: The Effects of Compulsory Schooling Age on Drop-out and Completion Rates," FBK-IRVAPP Working Papers 2017-05, Research Institute for the Evaluation of Public Policies (IRVAPP), Bruno Kessler Foundation.
    3. Alexandra-Nicoleta Ciucu (Durnoi) & Corina Ioanăș & Marioara Iordan & Camelia Delcea, 2024. "Forecasting Sustainable Development Indicators in Romania: A Study in the European Context," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 16(11), pages 1-21, May.
    4. Lavinia Kinne, 2023. "Good or Bad News First? The Effect of Feedback Order on Motivation and Performance," ifo Working Paper Series 396, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich.

  26. Asatryan, Zareh & De Witte, Kristof, 2015. "Direct democracy and local government efficiency," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 39(C), pages 58-66.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  27. Sofie J. Cabus & Kristof De Witte, 2015. "Does unauthorized school absenteeism accelerates the dropout decision? - Evidence from a Bayesian duration model," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 22(4), pages 266-271, March.

    Cited by:

    1. Santa Lázaro & Belén Urosa & Rosalía Mota & Eva Rubio, 2020. "Primary Education Truancy and School Performance in Social Exclusion Settings: The Case of Students in Cañada Real Galiana," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(20), pages 1-27, October.
    2. Enrico Ripamonti & Stefano Barberis, 2018. "The Effect of Cultural Capital on High School Dropout: An Investigation in the Italian Provinces," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 139(3), pages 1257-1279, October.
    3. Tassew Woldehanna & Kefyalew Endale & Joan Hamory & Sarah Baird, 2021. "Absenteeism, Dropout, and On-Time School Completion of Vulnerable Primary School Students in Ethiopia: Exploring the Role of Adolescent Decision-Making Power in the Household, Exposure to Violence, an," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 33(5), pages 1349-1389, October.
    4. Skedgell, Kyleigh & Kearney, Christopher A., 2018. "Predictors of school absenteeism severity at multiple levels: A classification and regression tree analysis," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 86(C), pages 236-245.
    5. Brent, Daniel A. & Ren, Yongwang & Wrenn, Douglas H., 2024. "Flood Risk and Property Market," 2024 Annual Meeting, July 28-30, New Orleans, LA 343651, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.

  28. Chris Van Klaveren & Kristof De Witte, 2015. "Football to improve math and reading performance," Education Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 23(5), pages 577-595, October.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  29. Baležentis, Tomas & De Witte, Kristof, 2015. "One- and multi-directional conditional efficiency measurement – Efficiency in Lithuanian family farms," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 245(2), pages 612-622.

    Cited by:

    1. Jean Joseph Minviel & Kristof De Witte, 2016. "The influence of public subsidies on farm technical efficiency: A robust conditional nonparametric approach," Working Papers SMART 16-10, INRAE UMR SMART.
    2. Badin, Luiza & Daraio, Cinzia & Simar, Leopold, 2018. "A Bootstrap Approach for Bandwidth Selection in Estimating Conditional Efficiency Measures," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2018007, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    3. Xin Tian & Qiang Mai & Qinan Zhang & Mingshu Lyu & Shiyao Li, 2024. "Analyzing provincial imbalances in green innovation development in china: multi-way efficiency analysis and geodetector approach," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 26(10), pages 26115-26146, October.
    4. Layer, Kevin & Johnson, Andrew L. & Sickles, Robin C. & Ferrier, Gary D., 2020. "Direction selection in stochastic directional distance functions," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 280(1), pages 351-364.
    5. Paolo Liberati & Raffaele Lagravinese & Giuliano Resce, 2017. "How Does Economic Social And Cultural Status Affect The Efficiency Of Educational Attainments? A Comparative Analysis On Pisa Results," Departmental Working Papers of Economics - University 'Roma Tre' 0217, Department of Economics - University Roma Tre.
    6. Mohammadian, Isaac & Jahangoshai Rezaee, Mustafa, 2020. "A new decomposition and interpretation of Hicks-Moorsteen productivity index for analysis of Stock Exchange companies: Case study on pharmaceutical industry," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 69(C).
    7. Jiawei Yang, 2023. "Disentangling the sources of bank inefficiency: a two-stage network multi-directional efficiency analysis approach," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 326(1), pages 369-410, July.
    8. Faten Ben Bouheni & Hassan Obeid & Elena Margarint, 2022. "Nonperforming loan of European Islamic banks over the economic cycle," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 313(2), pages 773-808, June.
    9. Kelly P. Murillo & Eugenio M. Rocha, 2018. "The Portuguese Manufacturing Sector during 2013-2016 after the Troika Austerity Measures," World Journal of Applied Economics, WERI-World Economic Research Institute, vol. 4(1), pages 21-38, June.
    10. Cinzia Daraio & Leopold Simar & Paul W. Wilson, 2018. "Fast and Efficient Computation of Directional Distance Estimators," LEM Papers Series 2018/21, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy.
    11. Mette Asmild & Tomas Baležentis & Jens Leth Hougaard, 2016. "Multi-directional productivity change: MEA-Malmquist," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 46(2), pages 109-119, December.
    12. Kapelko, Magdalena & Oude Lansink, Alfons, 2017. "Dynamic multi-directional inefficiency analysis of European dairy manufacturing firms," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 257(1), pages 338-344.
    13. Magdalena Kapelko, 2018. "Measuring inefficiency for specific inputs using data envelopment analysis: evidence from construction industry in Spain and Portugal," Central European Journal of Operations Research, Springer;Slovak Society for Operations Research;Hungarian Operational Research Society;Czech Society for Operations Research;Österr. Gesellschaft für Operations Research (ÖGOR);Slovenian Society Informatika - Section for Operational Research;Croatian Operational Research Society, vol. 26(1), pages 43-66, March.
    14. Jean Joseph Minviel & Timo Sipiläinen, 2018. "Dynamic stochastic analysis of the farm subsidy-efficiency link: evidence from France," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 50(1), pages 41-54, October.
    15. Lagravinese, Raffaele & Liberati, Paolo & Resce, Giuliano, 2020. "The impact of economic, social and cultural conditions on educational attainments," Journal of Policy Modeling, Elsevier, vol. 42(1), pages 112-132.
    16. Magdalena Kapelko & Alfons Oude Lansink, 2018. "Managerial and program inefficiency for European meat manufacturing firms: A dynamic multidirectional inefficiency analysis approach," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 49(1), pages 25-36, February.
    17. Agnė Žičkienė & Rasa Melnikienė & Mangirdas Morkūnas & Artiom Volkov, 2022. "CAP Direct Payments and Economic Resilience of Agriculture: Impact Assessment," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(17), pages 1-24, August.
    18. Zhu, Ning & Wu, Yanrui & Wang, Bing & Yu, Zhiqian, 2019. "Risk preference and efficiency in Chinese banking," China Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 53(C), pages 324-341.

  30. Kristof De Witte & Marton Csillag, 2014. "Does anybody notice? On the impact of improved truancy reporting on school dropout," Education Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 22(6), pages 549-568, December.

    Cited by:

    1. Katharina Heisig & Julia Sonnenburg, 2017. "Schulabgänger ohne Abschluss: Wodurch lassen sich die Unterschiede zwischen Ost und Westdeutschland erklären?," ifo Dresden berichtet, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, vol. 24(06), pages 07-13, December.
    2. Enrico Ripamonti & Stefano Barberis, 2018. "The Effect of Cultural Capital on High School Dropout: An Investigation in the Italian Provinces," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 139(3), pages 1257-1279, October.

  31. De Witte, Kristof & Geys, Benny & Solondz, Catharina, 2014. "Public expenditures, educational outcomes and grade inflation: Theory and evidence from a policy intervention in the Netherlands," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 40(C), pages 152-166.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  32. Kristof De Witte & Chris Van Klaveren, 2014. "How are teachers teaching? A nonparametric approach," Education Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 22(1), pages 3-23, February.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  33. K De Witte & N Rogge & L Cherchye & T Van Puyenbroeck, 2013. "Accounting for economies of scope in performance evaluations of university professors," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 64(11), pages 1595-1606, November.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  34. De Witte, Kristof & Geys, Benny, 2013. "Citizen coproduction and efficient public good provision: Theory and evidence from local public libraries," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 224(3), pages 592-602.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  35. Kristof De Witte & Mika Kortelainen, 2013. "What explains the performance of students in a heterogeneous environment? Conditional efficiency estimation with continuous and discrete environmental variables," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 45(17), pages 2401-2412, June.

    Cited by:

    1. Shawna Grosskopf & Kathy Hayes & Lori Taylor & William L Weber, 2017. "Would weighted-student funding enhance intra-district equity in Texas? A simulation using DEA," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 68(4), pages 377-389, April.
    2. Richard Gearhart & Nyakundi Michieka, 2020. "A non-parametric investigation of supply side factors and healthcare efficiency in the U.S," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 54(1), pages 59-74, August.
    3. Jean Joseph Minviel & Kristof De Witte, 2016. "The influence of public subsidies on farm technical efficiency: A robust conditional nonparametric approach," Working Papers SMART 16-10, INRAE UMR SMART.
    4. Cordero Ferrera, Jose Manuel & Alonso Morán, Edurne & Nuño Solís, Roberto & Orueta, Juan F. & Souto Arce, Regina, 2013. "Efficiency assessment of primary care providers: A conditional nonparametric approach," MPRA Paper 51926, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    5. Mergoni, Anna & Soncin, Mara & Agasisti, Tommaso, 2023. "The effect of ICT on schools’ efficiency: Empirical evidence on 23 European countries," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 119(C).
    6. Giovanna D'Inverno & Kristof De Witte, 2020. "Service level provision in municipalities: a flexible directional distance composite indicator," Working Papers of LEER - Leuven Economics of Education Research 656607, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), LEER - Leuven Economics of Education Research.
    7. Guerrini, Andrea & Romano, Giulia & Mancuso, Fabrizio & Carosi, Laura, 2016. "Identifying the performance drivers of wastewater treatment plants through conditional order-m efficiency analysis," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. 42(C), pages 20-31.
    8. Kristof De Witte & Laura López-Torres, 2017. "Efficiency in education: a review of literature and a way forward," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 68(4), pages 339-363, April.
    9. José Manuel Cordero & Carlos Díaz Caro & Francisco Pedraja Chaparro & Cristina Polo Fernández, 2020. "Tributos cedidos y eficiencia en la gestión tributaria de las Comunidades Autónomas," Hacienda Pública Española / Review of Public Economics, IEF, vol. 232(1), pages 75-112, March.
    10. Jose M. Cordero & Cristina Polo & Daniel Santín, 2020. "Assessment of new methods for incorporating contextual variables into efficiency measures: a Monte Carlo simulation," Operational Research, Springer, vol. 20(4), pages 2245-2265, December.
    11. Nickolaos G. Tzeremes, 2018. "Financial Development and Countries’ Production Efficiency: A Nonparametric Analysis," JRFM, MDPI, vol. 11(3), pages 1-13, August.
    12. Cordero, Jose M. & Polo, Cristina & Santín, Daniel & Simancas, Rosa, 2018. "Efficiency measurement and cross-country differences among schools: A robust conditional nonparametric analysis," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 74(C), pages 45-60.
    13. Sergio Destefanis & Francesco Addesa & Giambattista Rossi, 2022. "The impact of COVID-19 on home advantage: a conditional order-m analysis of football clubs’ efficiency in the top-5 European leagues," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 54(58), pages 6639-6655, December.
    14. Heidenreich, Anja & Grovermann, Christian & Kadzere, Irene & Egyir, Irene S. & Muriuki, Anne & Bandanaa, Joseph & Clottey, Joseph & Ndungu, John & Blockeel, Johan & Muller, Adrian & Stolze, Matthias &, 2022. "Sustainable intensification pathways in Sub-Saharan Africa: Assessing eco-efficiency of smallholder perennial cash crop production," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 195(C).
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    26. Nieswand, Maria & Seifert, Stefan, 2018. "Environmental factors in frontier estimation – A Monte Carlo analysis," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 265(1), pages 133-148.
    27. Julián Ramajo & José Manuel Cordero & Miguel Ángel Márquez, 2017. "European regional efficiency and geographical externalities: a spatial nonparametric frontier analysis," Journal of Geographical Systems, Springer, vol. 19(4), pages 319-348, October.
    28. Carla Haelermans & John Ruggiero, 2017. "Non-parametric estimation of the cost of adequacy in education: the case of Dutch schools," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 68(4), pages 390-398, April.
    29. Agasisti, Tommaso & Egorov, Aleksei & Serebrennikov, Pavel, 2023. "Universities’ efficiency and the socioeconomic characteristics of their environment — Evidence from an empirical analysis," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 85(C).
    30. Giorgia Zotti, 2024. "Regional Differences in Italian School Efficiency: A Conditional DEA Approach," SERIES 05-2024, Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza - Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro", revised Nov 2024.
    31. Fusco, Elisa & Vidoli, Francesco & Sahoo, Biresh K., 2018. "Spatial heterogeneity in composite indicator: A methodological proposal," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 77(C), pages 1-14.
    32. José Manuel Cordero & Cristina Polo & Daniel Santín & Gabriela Sicilia, 2016. "Monte-Carlo Comparison of Conditional Nonparametric Methods and Traditional Approaches to Include Exogenous Variables," Pacific Economic Review, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 21(4), pages 483-497, October.
    33. Esther Pagán-Castaño & Javier Sánchez-García & Fernando J. Garrigos-Simon & María Guijarro-García, 2021. "The Influence of Management on Teacher Well-Being and the Development of Sustainable Schools," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(5), pages 1-23, March.
    34. Julián Ramajo & Miguel A. Márquez & Geoffrey J. D. Hewings, 2024. "Addressing spatial dependence when estimating technical efficiency: A spatialized data envelopment analysis of regional productive performance in the European Union," Growth and Change, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 55(1), March.

  39. Kristof De Witte & Wim Groot & Henri?tte Maassen van den Brink, 2012. "The Efficiency of Education in Generating Literacy: A Stochastic Frontier Approach," Review of Economics & Finance, Better Advances Press, Canada, vol. 2, pages 25-37, February.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  40. Kristof De Witte & Chris Van Klaveren, 2012. "Comparing students by a matching analysis -- on early school leaving in Dutch cities," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 44(28), pages 3679-3690, October.

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    1. Katharina Heisig & Julia Sonnenburg, 2017. "Schulabgänger ohne Abschluss: Wodurch lassen sich die Unterschiede zwischen Ost und Westdeutschland erklären?," ifo Dresden berichtet, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, vol. 24(06), pages 07-13, December.
    2. Heers, M. & Van Klaveren, C. & Groot, W. and Maassen van den Brink, H., 2012. "The Impact of Community Schools on Student Dropout in Pre-vocational Education," Working Papers 45, Top Institute for Evidence Based Education Research.
    3. De Witte, Kristof & Geys, Benny & Solondz, Catharina, 2012. "Public expenditures, educational outcomes and grade inflation: Theory and evidence from a policy intervention in the Netherlands," Discussion Papers, Research Professorship & Project "The Future of Fiscal Federalism" SP II 2012-111, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
    4. Van Klaveren, C. & De Wolf, I., 2013. "Systematic Reviews In Education Research: When Do Effect Studies Provide Evidence?," Working Papers 46, Top Institute for Evidence Based Education Research.

  41. Cabus, Sofie J. & De Witte, Kristof, 2012. "Naming and shaming in a ‘fair’ way. On disentangling the influence of policy in observed outcomes," Journal of Policy Modeling, Elsevier, vol. 34(5), pages 767-787.

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    1. D'Inverno, Giovanna & Moesen, Wim & De Witte, Kristof, 2022. "Local government size and service level provision. Evidence from conditional non-parametric analysis," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 81(C).
    2. Meroni, Elena Claudia & Vera-Toscano, Esperanza & Costa, Patricia, 2015. "Can low skill teachers make good students? Empirical evidence from PIAAC and PISA," Journal of Policy Modeling, Elsevier, vol. 37(2), pages 308-323.
    3. Mergoni, Anna & D'Inverno, Giovanna & Carosi, Laura, 2022. "A composite indicator for measuring the environmental performance of water, wastewater, and solid waste utilities," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. 74(C).
    4. Agasisti, Tommaso & Cordero-Ferrera, Jose M., 2013. "Educational disparities across regions: A multilevel analysis for Italy and Spain," Journal of Policy Modeling, Elsevier, vol. 35(6), pages 1079-1102.
    5. Heflin, Colleen & Kukla-Acevedo, Sharon & Darolia, Rajeev, 2019. "Adolescent food insecurity and risky behaviors and mental health during the transition to adulthood," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 105(C), pages 1-1.

  42. Haelermans, Carla & De Witte, Kristof & Blank, Jos L.T., 2012. "On the allocation of resources for secondary schools," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 31(5), pages 575-586.

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    1. Shawna Grosskopf & Kathy Hayes & Lori Taylor & William L Weber, 2017. "Would weighted-student funding enhance intra-district equity in Texas? A simulation using DEA," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 68(4), pages 377-389, April.
    2. Kristof De Witte & Laura López-Torres, 2017. "Efficiency in education: a review of literature and a way forward," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 68(4), pages 339-363, April.
    3. Shawna Grosskopf & Kathy Hayes & Lori Taylor & William Weber, 2015. "Centralized or decentralized control of school resources? A network model," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 43(2), pages 139-150, April.
    4. Tavares, Priscilla Albuquerque, 2015. "The impact of school management practices on educational performance: Evidence from public schools in São Paulo," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 48(C), pages 1-15.
    5. Johnes, Jill, 2015. "Operational Research in education," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 243(3), pages 683-696.
    6. Jos L. T. Blanc & Alex A. S. van Heezik & Bas Blank, 2023. "Productivity and efficiency of central government departments: a mixed-effect model applied to Dutch data in the period 2012-2019," Public Sector Economics, Institute of Public Finance, vol. 47(3), pages 335-351.
    7. López-Torres, Laura & Prior, Diego, 2022. "Long-term efficiency of public service provision in a context of budget restrictions. An application to the education sector," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 81(C).
    8. López-Torres, Laura & Nicolini, Rosella & Prior, Diego, 2017. "Does strategic interaction affect demand for school places? A conditional efficiency approach," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 65(C), pages 89-103.
    9. Hong Son Nghiem & Ha Trong Nguyen & Luke B Connelly, 2016. "The Efficiency of Australian Schools: A nationwide analysis using gains in test scores of students as outputs," Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre Working Paper series WP1603, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre (BCEC), Curtin Business School.
    10. Aparicio, Juan & López-Torres, Laura & Santín, Daniel, 2018. "Economic crisis and public education. A productivity analysis using a Hicks-Moorsteen index," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 71(C), pages 34-44.
    11. Nghiem, Son & Nguyen, Ha & Connelly, Luke, 2014. "The Efficiency of Australian Schools: Evidence from the NAPLAN Data 2009-2011," MPRA Paper 56231, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    12. Brennan, Shae & Haelermans, Carla & Ruggiero, John, 2014. "Nonparametric estimation of education productivity incorporating nondiscretionary inputs with an application to Dutch schools," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 234(3), pages 809-818.
    13. Henriques, C.O. & Marcenaro-Gutierrez, O.D., 2021. "Efficiency of secondary schools in Portugal: A novel DEA hybrid approach," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 74(C).
    14. López-Torres, Laura & Johnes, Jill & Elliott, Caroline & Polo, Cristina, 2021. "The effects of competition and collaboration on efficiency in the UK independent school sector," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 96(C), pages 40-53.
    15. Haelermans, Carla & Ruggiero, John, 2013. "Estimating technical and allocative efficiency in the public sector: A nonparametric analysis of Dutch schools," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 227(1), pages 174-181.
    16. Carla Haelermans & John Ruggiero, 2017. "Non-parametric estimation of the cost of adequacy in education: the case of Dutch schools," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 68(4), pages 390-398, April.
    17. Yahia, F.B. & Essid, H., 2019. "Determinants of Tunisian Schools’ Efficiency: A DEA-Tobit Approach," Journal of Applied Management and Investments, Department of Business Administration and Corporate Security, International Humanitarian University, vol. 8(1), pages 44-56, February.

  43. Kristof Witte & Rui Marques, 2011. "Big and beautiful? On non-parametrically measuring scale economies in non-convex technologies," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 35(3), pages 213-226, June.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  44. De Witte, Kristof & Rogge, Nicky, 2011. "Accounting for exogenous influences in performance evaluations of teachers," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 30(4), pages 641-653, August.

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    1. Giannis Karagiannis, 2017. "On aggregate composite indicators," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 68(7), pages 741-746, July.
    2. Giménez, Víctor & Thieme, Claudio & Prior, Diego & Tortosa-Ausina, Emili, 2022. "Evaluation and determinants of preschool effectiveness in Chile," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 81(C).
    3. Cordero Ferrera, Jose Manuel & Alonso Morán, Edurne & Nuño Solís, Roberto & Orueta, Juan F. & Souto Arce, Regina, 2013. "Efficiency assessment of primary care providers: A conditional nonparametric approach," MPRA Paper 51926, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. Kristof De Witte & Laura López-Torres, 2017. "Efficiency in education: a review of literature and a way forward," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 68(4), pages 339-363, April.
    5. De Jaeger, Simon & Rogge, Nicky, 2014. "Cost-efficiency in packaging waste management: The case of Belgium," Resources, Conservation & Recycling, Elsevier, vol. 85(C), pages 106-115.
    6. Gulati, Rachita & Kattumuri, Ruth & Kumar, Sunil, 2020. "A non-parametric index of corporate governance in the banking industry: An application to Indian data," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 70(C).
    7. Anne Boring, 2015. "Gender Biases in Student Evaluations of Teachers," SciencePo Working papers Main hal-03470161, HAL.
    8. José Manuel Cordero & Daniel Santín & Rosa Simancas, 2017. "Assessing European primary school performance through a conditional nonparametric model," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 68(4), pages 364-376, April.
    9. Gulati, Rachita & Charles, Vincent & Kumar, Sunil, 2024. "School education development index: A meta-frontier range directional measure benefit-of-the-doubt model," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 92(C).
    10. De Witte, Kristof & Rogge, Nicky & Cherchye, Laurens & Van Puyenbroeck, Tom, 2013. "Economies of scope in research and teaching: A non-parametric investigation," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 41(2), pages 305-314.
    11. Tommaso Agasisti & Ekaterina Shibanova, 2020. "Autonomy, Performance And Efficiency: An Empirical Analysis Of Russian Universities 2014-2018," HSE Working papers WP BRP 224/EC/2020, National Research University Higher School of Economics.
    12. Gorry, Devon, 2017. "The impact of grade ceilings on student grades and course evaluations: Evidence from a policy change," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 56(C), pages 133-140.
    13. Barra, Cristian & Lagravinese, Raffaele & Zotti, Roberto, 2020. "Exploring Hospital Efficiency within and between Italian Regions: New Empirical Evidence," Department of Economics and Statistics Cognetti de Martiis. Working Papers 202024, University of Turin.
    14. Gulati, Rachita, 2022. "Bank ownership and governance quality in India: Evolution and detection of convergence clubs," The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 62(C).
    15. Víctor Giménez & Diego Prior & Claudio Thieme & Emili Tortosa-Ausina, 2021. "International comparisons of the COVID-19 pandemic management: What can be learned from activity analysis techniques?," Working Papers 2021/12, Economics Department, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón (Spain).
    16. Tommaso Agasisti & Cristian Barra & Roberto Zotti, 2019. "Research, knowledge transfer, and innovation: The effect of Italian universities’ efficiency on local economic development 2006−2012," Journal of Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 59(5), pages 819-849, November.
    17. D’Inverno, Giovanna & Carosi, Laura & Romano, Giulia, 2021. "Environmental sustainability and service quality beyond economic and financial indicators: A performance evaluation of Italian water utilities," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 75(C).
    18. D’Inverno, Giovanna & Smet, Mike & De Witte, Kristof, 2021. "Impact evaluation in a multi-input multi-output setting: Evidence on the effect of additional resources for schools," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 290(3), pages 1111-1124.
    19. López-Torres, Laura & Prior, Diego, 2022. "Long-term efficiency of public service provision in a context of budget restrictions. An application to the education sector," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 81(C).
    20. Fatima Hameed & Amjad Ali & Amina Hameed & Zohra Saleem & Yasir Javed, 2015. "Teacher evaluation: the role of gender," Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, Springer, vol. 49(5), pages 1779-1789, September.
    21. Daniel Santín & Gabriela Sicilia, 2018. "Using DEA for measuring teachers’ performance and the impact on students’ outcomes: evidence for Spain," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 49(1), pages 1-15, February.
    22. Alexander Arévalo S & Víctor Giménez G & Diego Prior J, 2022. "Análisis de eficiencia en educación: una aplicación del método StoNED," Revista Desarrollo y Sociedad, Universidad de los Andes,Facultad de Economía, CEDE, vol. 92(2), pages 45-91, October.
    23. López-Torres, Laura & Nicolini, Rosella & Prior, Diego, 2017. "Does strategic interaction affect demand for school places? A conditional efficiency approach," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 65(C), pages 89-103.
    24. Delimiro Visbal-Cadavid & Mónica Martínez-Gómez & Francisco Guijarro, 2017. "Assessing the Efficiency of Public Universities through DEA. A Case Study," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 9(8), pages 1-19, August.
    25. Mosnier, Claire & Boukhriss, Sanae & Minviel, Jean-Joseph, 2023. "Does pig production improves cattle farm sustainability in the French massif central? A hierarchical constrained directional benefit-of-the-doubt approach," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 210(C).
    26. Mergoni, Anna & D'Inverno, Giovanna & Carosi, Laura, 2022. "A composite indicator for measuring the environmental performance of water, wastewater, and solid waste utilities," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. 74(C).
    27. Cordero, José Manuel & Alonso-Morán, Edurne & Nuño-Solinis, Roberto & Orueta, Juan F. & Arce, Regina Sauto, 2015. "Efficiency assessment of primary care providers: A conditional nonparametric approach," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 240(1), pages 235-244.
    28. Rogge, Nicky & Archer, Geoffrey, 2021. "Measuring and analyzing country change in establishing ease of doing business using a revised version of World Bank's ease of doing business index," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 290(1), pages 373-385.
    29. Karagiannis, Roxani & Karagiannis, Giannis, 2018. "Intra- and inter-group composite indicators using the BoD model," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 61(C), pages 44-51.
    30. Masci, Chiara & De Witte, Kristof & Agasisti, Tommaso, 2018. "The influence of school size, principal characteristics and school management practices on educational performance: An efficiency analysis of Italian students attending middle schools," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 61(C), pages 52-69.
    31. Emmanuel Thanassoulis & Prasanta Kumar Dey & Konstantinos Petridis & Ioannis Goniadis & Andreas C. Georgiou, 2017. "Evaluating higher education teaching performance using combined analytic hierarchy process and data envelopment analysis," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 68(4), pages 431-445, April.
    32. Boring, Anne, 2017. "Gender biases in student evaluations of teaching," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 145(C), pages 27-41.
    33. Fusco, Elisa & Vidoli, Francesco & Sahoo, Biresh K., 2018. "Spatial heterogeneity in composite indicator: A methodological proposal," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 77(C), pages 1-14.
    34. Kristof Witte & Lenka Hudrlikova, 2013. "What about excellence in teaching? A benevolent ranking of universities," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 96(1), pages 337-364, July.
    35. Claudio Thieme & Víctor Giménez & Diego Prior & Emili Tortosa-Ausina, 2023. "Health vs. Wealth: A Cross-country Analysis of Managerial Effectiveness of the COVID-19," Working Papers 2023/10, Economics Department, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón (Spain).
    36. K. C. Culver & Nicholas A. Bowman & Ernest T. Pascarella, 2021. "How Students’ Intellectual Orientations and Cognitive Reasoning Abilities and May Shape Their Perceptions of Good Teaching Practices," Research in Higher Education, Springer;Association for Institutional Research, vol. 62(6), pages 765-788, September.

  45. Cabus, Sofie J. & De Witte, Kristof, 2011. "Does school time matter?—On the impact of compulsory education age on school dropout," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 30(6), pages 1384-1398.

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    1. Katharina Heisig & Julia Sonnenburg, 2017. "Schulabgänger ohne Abschluss: Wodurch lassen sich die Unterschiede zwischen Ost und Westdeutschland erklären?," ifo Dresden berichtet, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, vol. 24(06), pages 07-13, December.
    2. Cabus, Sofie J. & De Witte, Kristof, 2012. "Naming and shaming in a ‘fair’ way. On disentangling the influence of policy in observed outcomes," Journal of Policy Modeling, Elsevier, vol. 34(5), pages 767-787.
    3. Adamecz, Anna, 2023. "Longer schooling with grade retention: The effects of increasing the school leaving age on dropping out and labour market success," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 97(C).
    4. Figlio, David N. & Karbownik, Krzysztof & Salvanes, Kjell G., 2015. "Education Research and Administrative Data," IZA Discussion Papers 9474, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    5. Adamecz-Völgyi, Anna, 2021. "Is raising the school leaving age enough to decrease dropping out?," GLO Discussion Paper Series 985, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
    6. Giovanni Luca & Paolo Mazzocchi & Claudio Quintano & Antonella Rocca, 2020. "Going Behind the High Rates of NEETs in Italy and Spain: The Role of Early School Leavers," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 151(1), pages 345-363, August.
    7. José A. Robles-Zurita, 2017. "Cognitive skills and the LOGSE reform in Spain: evidence from PIAAC," SERIEs: Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, Springer;Spanish Economic Association, vol. 8(4), pages 401-415, November.
    8. Blane D. Lewis & Hieu T. M. Nguyen, 2018. "Policy failure and educational attainment in Indonesia," Departmental Working Papers 2018-17, The Australian National University, Arndt-Corden Department of Economics.
    9. Afonso Câmara Leme, 2024. "Too young to quit school? Increasing the compulsory schooling leaving age and students’ educational paths," AMSE Working Papers 2436, Aix-Marseille School of Economics, France.
    10. Brunello, Giorgio & De Paola, Maria, 2013. "The Costs of Early School Leaving in Europe," IZA Discussion Papers 7791, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    11. Youwei Wang & Yuxin Chen & Yi Qian, 2018. "The Causal Link between Relative Age Effect and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from 17 Million Users across 49 Years on Taobao," NBER Working Papers 25318, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    12. Anna Adamecz-Volgyi, 2018. "Increased Compulsory School Leaving Age Affects Secondary School Track Choice and Increases Dropout Rates in Vocational Training Schools," Budapest Working Papers on the Labour Market 1801, Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies.
    13. Vinas-Forcade, Jennifer & Mels, Cindy & Valcke, Martin & Derluyn, Ilse, 2019. "Beyond academics: Dropout prevention summer school programs in the transition to secondary education," International Journal of Educational Development, Elsevier, vol. 70(C), pages 1-1.
    14. Moshoeshoe,Ramaele Elias, 2020. "Long-Term Effects of Free Primary Education on Educational Achievement : Evidence from Lesotho," Policy Research Working Paper Series 9404, The World Bank.
    15. Kóczán, Zs., 2024. "Lasting scars: The long-term effects of school closures on earnings," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 176(C).
    16. Hofmarcher, Thomas, 2021. "The effect of education on poverty: A European perspective," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 83(C).
    17. Sansani, Shahar, 2015. "The differential impact of compulsory schooling laws on school quality in the United States segregated South," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 45(C), pages 64-75.
    18. Lopez Tris, Carlos Javier, 2020. "Evidencia socioeconómica del abandono escolar en Europa [Socioeconomic evidence of early school leaving in Europe]," MPRA Paper 98124, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    19. Binh Thi Thanh Dang & Trung Xuan Hoang, 2024. "The impact of compulsory primary education law on the educational attainment of children: Evidence from Vietnam," Asian Economic Journal, East Asian Economic Association, vol. 38(1), pages 118-147, March.

  46. Marques, Rui Cunha & De Witte, Kristof, 2011. "Is big better? On scale and scope economies in the Portuguese water sector," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 28(3), pages 1009-1016, May.

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    1. Furlong, Casey & Brotchie, Ryan & Considine, Robert & Finlayson, Greg & Guthrie, Lachlan, 2017. "Key concepts for Integrated Urban Water Management infrastructure planning: Lessons from Melbourne," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. 45(C), pages 84-96.
    2. Massarutto, Antonio & Grassetti, Luca & Lambardi di San Miniato, Michele & Moletta, Mattia, 2023. "Efficient firms are all alike, but every inefficient firm is such in its own way: Heterogeneity of costs determinants in the Italian water sector," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. 84(C).
    3. Aurélie Corne & Olga Goncalves & Nicolas Peypoch, 2020. "Evaluating the performance drivers of French ski resorts: A hierarchical approach," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 41(3), pages 389-405, April.
    4. Andrea Guerrini & Giulia Romano & Bettina Campedelli, 2013. "Economies of Scale, Scope, and Density in the Italian Water Sector: A Two-Stage Data Envelopment Analysis Approach," Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), Springer;European Water Resources Association (EWRA), vol. 27(13), pages 4559-4578, October.
    5. Mydland, Ørjan & Kumbhakar, Subal C. & Lien, Gudbrand & Amundsveen, Roar & Kvile, Hilde Marit, 2020. "Economies of scope and scale in the Norwegian electricity industry," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 88(C), pages 39-46.
    6. Zschille, Michael, 2012. "Consolidating the Water Industry: An Analysis of the Potential Gains from Horizontal Integration in a Conditional Efficiency Fr," CEPR Discussion Papers 8737, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    7. Michael Zschille, 2014. "Nonparametric measures of returns to scale: an application to German water supply," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 47(3), pages 1029-1053, November.
    8. Sanjukta Datta & Devendra Kodwani & Howard Viney, 2013. "Shareholder wealth creation following M&A: evidence from European utility sectors," Applied Financial Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 23(10), pages 891-900, May.
    9. Juan Luis Gómez-Reino & Santiago Lago-Peñas & Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, 2021. "Evidence on economies of scale in local public service provision: a meta-analysis," Working Papers. Collection A: Public economics, governance and decentralization 2103, Universidade de Vigo, GEN - Governance and Economics research Network.
    10. Rui Domingos Ribeiro da Cunha Marques & Hugo Consci?ncia Silvestre, 2019. "Does Regulation Really Work? A Principal-agent Approach to the Portuguese Waste Services," ECONOMIA PUBBLICA, FrancoAngeli Editore, vol. 2019(1), pages 49-67.
    11. Michael Zschille, 2014. "Marktstrukturen in der Trinkwasserversorgung," DIW Roundup: Politik im Fokus 43, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research.
    12. Paula Llanquileo-Melgarejo & María Molinos-Senante & Giulia Romano & Laura Carosi, 2021. "Evaluation of the Impact of Separative Collection and Recycling of Municipal Solid Waste on Performance: An Empirical Application for Chile," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(4), pages 1-14, February.
    13. Michael Zschille, 2016. "Cost Structure and Economies of Scale in German Water Supply," Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin 1576, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research.
    14. Francisco Germano Carvalho Lucio & Jhorland Ayala‐García, 2022. "Public sector efficiency in Brazil," Regional Science Policy & Practice, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 14(6), pages 308-321, December.
    15. Michael Zschille, 2012. "Consolidating the Water Industry: An Analysis of the Potential Gains from Horizontal Integration in a Conditional Efficiency Framework," Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin 1187, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research.
    16. Pérez-López, Gemma & Prior, Diego & Zafra-Gómez, José L., 2018. "Temporal scale efficiency in DEA panel data estimations. An application to the solid waste disposal service in Spain," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 76(C), pages 18-27.
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    19. Guerrini, Andrea & Romano, Giulia & Leardini, Chiara, 2018. "Economies of scale and density in the Italian water industry: A stochastic frontier approach," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. 52(C), pages 103-111.
    20. Harald Tauchmann, 2012. "Partial frontier efficiency analysis," Stata Journal, StataCorp LP, vol. 12(3), pages 461-478, September.
    21. Anna Bottasso & Maurizio Conti, 2021. "Economie di integrazione verticale ed economie di scopo nel settore idrico e fognario: alcune considerazioni alla luce dell?evidenza empirica internazionale," ECONOMIA PUBBLICA, FrancoAngeli Editore, vol. 2021(3), pages 89-128.
    22. Corrado Lo Storto, 2018. "Efficiency, Conflicting Goals and Trade-Offs: A Nonparametric Analysis of the Water and Wastewater Service Industry in Italy," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(4), pages 1-22, March.
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  47. Kristof Witte & David Saal, 2010. "Is a little sunshine all we need? On the impact of sunshine regulation on profits, productivity and prices in the Dutch drinking water sector," Journal of Regulatory Economics, Springer, vol. 37(3), pages 219-242, June.
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  49. Emrouznejad, Ali & De Witte, Kristof, 2010. "COOPER-framework: A unified process for non-parametric projects," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 207(3), pages 1573-1586, December.

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    11. De Clercq, Djavan & Wen, Zongguo & Caicedo, Luis & Cao, Xin & Fan, Fei & Xu, Ruifei, 2017. "Application of DEA and statistical inference to model the determinants of biomethane production efficiency: A case study in south China," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 205(C), pages 1231-1243.

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    2. Cordero Ferrera, Jose Manuel & Alonso Morán, Edurne & Nuño Solís, Roberto & Orueta, Juan F. & Souto Arce, Regina, 2013. "Efficiency assessment of primary care providers: A conditional nonparametric approach," MPRA Paper 51926, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    6. Burger, Kaspar, 2016. "Intergenerational transmission of education in Europe: Do more comprehensive education systems reduce social gradients in student achievement?," MPRA Paper 95310, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 2016.
    7. Jose M. Cordero & Cristina Polo & Daniel Santín, 2020. "Assessment of new methods for incorporating contextual variables into efficiency measures: a Monte Carlo simulation," Operational Research, Springer, vol. 20(4), pages 2245-2265, December.
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    12. Jean HINDRIKS & Mattéo GODIN, 2016. "Equité et efficacité des écoles : une comparaison internationale basée sur la mobilité sociale à l'école," LIDAM Discussion Papers CORE 2016049, Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE).
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    18. Víctor Giménez & Diego Prior & Claudio Thieme & Emili Tortosa-Ausina, 2021. "International comparisons of the COVID-19 pandemic management: What can be learned from activity analysis techniques?," Working Papers 2021/12, Economics Department, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón (Spain).
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  55. Kristof Witte & Rui Marques, 2010. "Influential observations in frontier models, a robust non-oriented approach to the water sector," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 181(1), pages 377-392, December.

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