Public Spending Efficiency in the OECD: Benchmarking Health Care, Education, and General Administration

IF 0.4 Q4 ECONOMICS
Richard Dutu, P. Sicari
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Abstract

In many OECD countries, changes in demography and health conditions are putting pressure on public finance. To prevent further expansion of government spending as a percentage of GDP, public spending efficiency will need to be raised. This paper uses data envelopment analysis (DEA) to assess the efficiency of welfare spending (normalized by the working-age population) in a sample of OECD countries around 2012, focussing on health care, secondary education, and general public services. The DEA model has a two input-one output structure, with at least one of the variables representing a composite indicator controlling for country-specific factors (socio-economic environment and lifestyle factors, for example). We find wide dispersion in efficiency measures across OECD countries and provide possible quantified improvements for both output and input efficiency.
经合组织的公共支出效率:医疗、教育和总务管理的基准
在许多经合发组织国家,人口和健康状况的变化给公共财政带来压力。为了防止政府支出占GDP的比例进一步扩大,需要提高公共支出效率。本文利用数据包络分析(DEA)评估了2012年前后经合组织国家福利支出(按工作年龄人口归一化)的效率,重点关注医疗保健、中等教育和一般公共服务。DEA模型具有两个投入一个产出的结构,其中至少有一个变量代表控制具体国家因素(例如社会经济环境和生活方式因素)的复合指标。我们发现经合组织国家在效率衡量方面存在广泛的差异,并为产出和投入效率提供了可能的量化改进。
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