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Measuring the technical efficiency of secondary education in Slovenia and Croatia: a DEA approach

The paper joins the efforts of other scholars in investigating secondary education efficiency by applying a non-parametric methodology. In this respect, the paper’s purpose is to review some previous researches on measuring the efficiency of public (secondary) education sector as well as some conceptual and methodological issues of a non-parametric approach. Most importantly, the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) technique is presented and then applied to a wide range of EU and OECD countries, including Slovenia and Croatia, to evaluate the technical efficiency of secondary education. The empirical results show that technical efficiency in secondary education varies significantly across the great majority of EU and OECD countries. Both Slovenia and Croatia show a relatively high level of technical inefficiency in their secondary education as they respectively only rank in the third and fourth quartiles among selected countries. Therefore, taking advantage of the significant room to rationalise public secondary education spending without sacrificing while also redirecting resources to the tertiary education sector is recommended for both countries.

secondary education; DEA technique; Slovenia; Croatia; EU; OECD

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