Análise da Eficiência dos Departamentos de Economia de Instituições de Ensino Superior do Brasil

Authors

  • Alessio Tony Cavalcanti de Almeida Universidade Federal de Pernambuco http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0436-359X
  • Hilton Martins de Brito Ramalho Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
  • Eryka Fernanda Miranda Sobral Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
  • Andrea Ferreira da Silva Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/1980-5330/ea122240

Keywords:

Economics, Higher Education, Efficiency, DEA, Regression

Abstract

This article investigates the efficiency of economics departments inBrazil, considering the results of teaching and research. We use Data En-velopment Analysis with sequential frontier andbootstrapreplications toestimate the efficiency scores between 2009 and 2012. Theses estimateswere conditioned to socioeconomic indicators of students and higher ed-ucation institutions in a fixed effects model. The results show that thetechnical efficiency level of the departments, on average, decreased from80% to 64% in the period, while the scale efficiency was always higherthan 93%. In addition, departments composed of students withbettersocioeconomic backgrounds tend to have a higher level of technical efficiency.

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Author Biographies

  • Alessio Tony Cavalcanti de Almeida, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

    Departamento de Economia, UFPB

  • Hilton Martins de Brito Ramalho, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

    Departamento de Economia, UFPB

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Published

2018-03-01

Issue

Vol. 22 No. 1 (2018)

Section

Papers

How to Cite

Almeida, A. T. C. de, Ramalho, H. M. de B., Sobral, E. F. M., & Silva, A. F. da. (2018). Análise da Eficiência dos Departamentos de Economia de Instituições de Ensino Superior do Brasil. Economia Aplicada, 22(1), 109-140. https://doi.org/10.11606/1980-5330/ea122240