A two-stage DEA analysis of the efficiency in argentinian universities

Lima

Congreso; XIX Congreso Latino-Iberoamericano de Investigación Operativa CLAIO 2018; 2018

Peruvian Society of Operations Research (SOPIOS)

This research focuses on the analysis of the efficiency of national universities in Argentina by means of a methodological approach not frequently employed in the research field of higher education systems: a two-stage analysis. The first stage consist on quantifying technical efficiency levels of each National University on each year, for the period 2004-2013 by means of the application of an efficiency DEA model, outputs oriented with constant returns. Teachers and Students were considered as input variables, while Graduates and Scientific Production as output. Secondly, the DEA efficiency score will be regressed on a set of institutional factors (budget allocation, infrastructure expenditure) as regressors. The use of a two-stage model allows for a deeper level of analysis of the causes of efficiency. Results show a trend towards improvement in the relative efficiency levels of the system, but with specific cases of deterioration in the situation of recently created universities.