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Assessing and explaining the relative efficiency of local government
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We assess the relative efficiency of local municipalities using Data Envelopment Analysis and parametric
analysis. As an output measure we compute a composite local government indicator of municipal
performance, using data for Portuguese municipalities. This allows assessing the extent of possible municipal
improvement relative to the “best-practice” frontier. Our results suggest that most municipalities could
improve performance without necessarily increasing municipal spending. In a second stage efficiency scores
are explained by means of a Tobit analysis with a set of relevant explanatory socio-economic factors playing
the role of non-discretionary inputs, such as education and per capita purchasing power.
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Local Government Technical Efficiency Socio-Economic Factors DEA Tobit
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Afonso, António, and Sónia Fernandes. (2008). "Assessing and explaining the relative efficiency of local government" .The Journal of Socio-Economics, Vol. 37, No. 5: pp.1946-1979.
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Elsevier