Efficiency and Equity in School Funding: A Case Study for Kansas |
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| Authors: | Kalyan Chakraborty John Poggio |
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| Institution: | (1) Emporia State University AIS, Box 4057, 1200 Commercial Street, Emporia, KS 66801, USA;(2) Department of Psychology & Research, Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation, University of Kansas, 1122 West Campus Road, 738 Pearson Hall, Lawrence, KS 66045-3101, USA |
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| Abstract: | This study measures cost inefficiency of Kansas public school districts and applied both mathematical programming and stochastic
frontier approach. The empirical study uses two-stage data envelopment analysis model and the cost inefficiency effects model
proposed by Battese and Coelli (Empirical Economics 24:325–332, 1995) and applied to a panel data. The results found mean inefficiencies from these two models are very close. The results indicate
that Kansas school districts, on average, exhibit cost inefficiency in their operations, however, there is a tendency for
inefficiencies to decline over time. The study does not find any strong evidence for lower efficiency due to lower expenditure
per-pupil. Instead, we found inconclusive evidences where lower efficiency for certain school districts could be assigned
to unfavorable environmental cost conditions.
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| Keywords: | Cost inefficiency Stochastic cost frontier Function Public education |
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