Afonso, AntónioJalles, João TovarVenâncio, Ana2020-11-172020-11-172020-11Afonso, António, João Tovar Jalles e Ana Venâncio (2020). "Government spending efficiency, measurement and applications : a cross-country efficiency dataset". Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão – REM Working paper nº 0147 – 20202184-108Xhttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/20573This chapter conducts a review of the literature dealing with overall public sector performance and efficiency, it defines a methodology to assess public sector efficiency and it creates a novel and large cross-sectional panel dataset of government indicators and public sector efficiency scores. The focus is on a balanced sample covering all 36 OECD countries over the time period between 2006 and 2017. First, we define a set of economic and sociodemographic metrics necessary to construct performance composite indicators. Second, we calculate and report a full set of (input and output oriented) efficiency scores based on the performance indicators previously computed.enggovernment spending efficiencypublic sector performancenon-parametric estimationDEAOECDworking paper