Efficiencies Evaluation of Colleges of Business and Graduates: Three Stage Data Envelopment Analysis
Date Issued
2008
Date
2008
Author(s)
Chen, Ting-Yu
Abstract
This study concerns mainly about the performance of business colleges in Taiwan. The main idea is to measure the influence of schools on every student’s wage, in other words, to measure the value-added part of schools. In addition, this study also concerns that when comparing every student, the source of inefficiency is from school or students within. This data mainly comes from the questionnaires of exceptional plan of the ministry of education in 2004.here three ways to do the empirical part: Three Stage Data Envelopment Analysis (Three Stage DEA) of decomposition of individual-level data and school-level data and Multilevel Modeling (MLM). Variables include JCEE (Joint College Entrance Examination) scores, wages and characteristic variables: gender, degree and years of working. Three Stage DEA mainly estimates the efficiencies including the concept of value-added, and MLM directly estimate the very value of value-added. The comparison between these two method focuses on the difference of the rankings. n individual characteristic variables, gender, degree and years of working all have significant and positive influence on wages. This phenomenon is consistent with the observation on the job market. About the estimation on DEA, performance of public schools is better than private school on average, however, the ranking of public schools is not necessary better than private schools respectively. Since Individual-level DEA includes a process of decomposition, when comparing every student, the source of inefficiency is mainly from students themselves, not from schools. On the other hand, MLM estimates the value-added part from each school. The result is similar to DEA. On average, performance of public schools is better than private schools, however, the ranking of public schools is not necessary better than private schools respectively. Moreover, schools influent on two kinds of wage variables differently, which means after graduation, the influence from schools would decrease. Finally, this study provides several suggestions based on the empirical results for students who are willing to attend college, their parents and educational authorities.
Subjects
School Education
Student Performance
School Quality
Three Stage Data Envelopment Analysis
Decomposition
Multilevel Modeling
Type
thesis
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