Estimating the Relative Efficiency of Secondary Schools by Stochastic Frontier Analysis

Abstract

This study has the aim of evaluating the efficiency of schools of secondary education. We used the first data (pilot survey) gathered from an official survey, in progress, performed by the school management of the Campania Region. The survey covers attributes regarding the environment, territorial context and economic resources. We adopted the Stochastic Frontier Analysis to estimate the efficiency and a Tobit regression model in order to discuss which factors might affect the efficiency.