Efficiency of Elementary Education in India Empirical Evidence Using a Nonparametric Data Envelopment Approach /

• Main Author: Ghose, Arpita (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Economics,
• Subjects: Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Econometrics.; Development economics.; Economics.; Development Economics.; Educational Policy and Politics.

This book assesses how efficient primary and upper primary education is across different states of India considering both output oriented and input oriented measures of technical efficiency. It identifies the most important factors that could produce differential efficiency among the states, includi...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: The background and motivation
• Chapter 2: An overview of the existing literature
• Chapter 3: The output-oriented measures of technical efficiency and its determinants in primary and upper-primary level of education in India
• Chapter 4: The input-oriented measures of technical efficiency and its determinants in primary and upper primary levels of education in India
• Chapter 5: Summary/ policy suggestions.