교육분야 정부지출의 효율성 측정과 결정요인

초록

The adequate measurement of government expenditure efficiency is a difficult empirical issue and the literature on it, particularly when it comes to aggregate and international data, is rather scarce. Our contribution in this study is threefold: first, we discuss and survey conceptual and methodological issues related to the measurement and analysis of government expenditure efficiency. Secondly, we construct both efficiency composite indicators and DEA(Data Envelopment Analysis) input-oriented efficiency scores of 8 functional government expenditures for 30 OECD countries. Lastly we combine efficiency scores with a Tobit analysis to see whether exogenous, non-discretionary factors play a role in explaining health and education expenditure inefficiencies. On the second and third objective, the study finds that Korea's expenditure efficiency is top ranked for education expenditure.

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