This paper provides an extensive overview of the literature on efficiency in education. It
summarizes the earlier applied inputs, outputs and contextual variables, as well as the used …

Operational Research (OR) techniques have been applied, from the early stages of the
discipline, to a wide variety of issues in education. At the government level, these include …

In recent years there has been an exponential growth in the number of publications related
to theory and applications of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Charnes, Cooper, and …

Improving technological innovation efficiency and eco-efficiency is the key to achieving a
high-quality, sustainable mining industry in China. In order to explore the internal process of …

The current study proposes a new DEA model to evaluate the efficiency of 39 Chinese
commercial banks over the period 2010–2018. The paper also, in the second stage …

We test whether there is a link between the performance of universities, measured through a
concept of efficiency, and the economic development of the regions in which they operate …

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is an approach for measuring the performance of a set of
homogeneous decision making units (DMUs). Recently, DEA has been extended to …

Cross-efficiency evaluation, as an extension tool of data envelopment analysis (DEA), has
been widely applied in evaluating and ranking decision making units (DMUs). Unfortunately …

National policy initiatives require the expenditure of large amounts of resources over several
years. It is common for these initiatives to generate large amounts of data that are needed in …

This paper presents the results of an efficiency study of Colombian public universities in
2012, conducted using the methodology of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and the …