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Four-Stage Dea Efficiency Evaluations: Financial Reforms In Public University Funding, G. Thomas Sav
Four-Stage Dea Efficiency Evaluations: Financial Reforms In Public University Funding, G. Thomas Sav
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Financial reforms in U.S. public higher education are well underway and are progressively replacing university enrollment based funding formulas with performance based models driven, in part, by graduation rates. Doing so, however, fails to account for the internal resource constraints and managerial efficiencies associated with production. Moreover, graduation rates are affected by external factors beyond the control of university decision-makers. This paper addresses these issues and uses a four-stage data envelopment analysis (DEA) model to evaluate university graduation rate performance. The four-stage DEA efficiencies correct for both environmental and statistical noise effects on university operations. Efficiency estimates control for the …