Higher Education Institutions' Costs and Efficiency: Taking the Decompostion a Further Step

Lancaster University Management School Working Paper

19 Pages Posted: 4 Nov 2005

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Geraint Johnes

Lancaster University - Lancaster University Management School; Lancaster University

Jill Johnes

University of Huddersfield

Date Written: October 2005

Abstract

A multiproduct cost function is estimated for English higher education institutions using a panel of data from recent years. The panel approach allows estimation by means of a random parameter stochastic frontier model which provides considerable new insights in that it allows the impact on costs of inter-institutional differences in the cost function itself to be distinguished from inter-institutional differences in efficiency. The approach used here therefore resembles in some respects the non-parametric methods of efficiency evaluation. We report also on measures of average incremental cost of provision and on returns to scale and scope.

Keywords: stochastic frontier, random parameter models, costs, higher education

JEL Classification: C14, C23, C51, D20, I20

Suggested Citation

Johnes, Geraint and Johnes, Jill, Higher Education Institutions' Costs and Efficiency: Taking the Decompostion a Further Step (October 2005). Lancaster University Management School Working Paper, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=831684 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.831684

Geraint Johnes (Contact Author)

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Jill Johnes

University of Huddersfield ( email )

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