Efficiency of Philippine public high schools using spatio-temporal stochastic frontier analysis

College

Ramon V. Del Rosario College of Business

Department/Unit

Decision Sciences and Innovation Dept

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Source Title

4th National Conference [of the] Operations Research Society of the Philippines

Publication Date

2010

Abstract

This paper proposes a method for modeling production function of education using a stochastic frontier model with spatial temporal terms. Using a unique dataset that combines school achievement scores with school characteristics from 2005-2008, the efficiency of 4,900 public high schools in the Philippines in converting school inputs into test scores was estimated. Results show that the average inefficiency is at 41% and that there is a significant positive spatial externality in efficiency, which means that efficiency in one school can spill over to its neighbors. The model was found to be robust to various environmental variables included in the estimation. The results of the study will be important to guide policy makers in allocating limited resources to public schools.

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Disciplines

Secondary Education

Keywords

Public schools—Philippines

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