Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/19088 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 1624
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
The paper performs an efficiency analysis of the lower secondary school sector in Norway. The efficiency potential is calculated to 14 percent based on a DEA analysis with grades in core subjects (adjusted for student characteristics and family background) as outputs. The analysis of the determinants of efficiency indicates that a high level of municipal revenue, a high degree of party fragmentation, and a high share of socialists in the local council are associated with low educational efficiency. The negative effects of the share of socialists and party fragmentation seem to reflect both higher resource use and lower student performance.
Subjects: 
educational efficiency
DEA analysis
determinants of efficiency
political and budgetary institutions
JEL: 
I21
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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