Efficiency and quality in Colombian education: An application of the metafrontier Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index

Alexei Arbona Estrada; Victor Gímenez García; Sebastian Lopez Estrada; Diego Prior

doi:10.1016/j.seps.2021.101122

Efficiency and quality in Colombian education: An application of the metafrontier Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index

Alexei Arbona Estrada, Victor Gímenez García, Sebastian Lopez Estrada, Diego Prior

Autonomous University of Barcelona

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This study uses the metafrontier Malmquist-Luenberger index to measure changes in the productivity of 4587 schools in the Colombian education system. Public and private schools are differentiated and all the schools participated in the Saber 11 standardized test between 2014 and 2017 in the subjects of mathematics, reading, sciences, social and citizen sciences and English. This methodology is appropriate to measure productivity while using good and bad outputs in the educational context. The general results indicate deterioration in both sectors; this behavior is due to the change in best practices and the change in efficiency. Large gaps are also found between departments.

Translated title of the contribution	Eficiencia y calidad en la educación colombiana: una aplicación del índice de productividad metafrontera Malmquist-Luenberger
Original language	English
Article number	101122
Pages (from-to)	1
Number of pages	10
Journal	Socio-Economic Planning Sciences
Volume	79
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2021.101122
State	Published - Feb 2022

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Education
Efficiency
Inequality
Metafrontier malmquist-luenberger index

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