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- Title
Anticipating the Consequences of School Reform: A New Use of DEA.
- Authors
Grosskopf, Shawna; Hayes, Kathy J.; Taylor, Lori L.; Weber, William L.
- Abstract
We use DEA-type linear programming techniques to simulate a basic component of educational reform-eliminating restrictions on the allocation of school personnel. Our technique allows us to identify potential output gains (or equivalently potential cost savings) from reform. We can also identify which personnel groups are likely to gain and lose under this reform. When we apply our model to a sample of Texas school districts, we find evidence that the educational establishment has substantial economic rents to protect from school reform, and that the primary beneficiaries of reform are likely to be affluent school districts with few minority students. The technique, which relies on the relationship between the direct and indirect distance functions, can be easily generalized to measure the potential gains from removing other input restrictions such as union work rules, environmental regulations, or deed restrictions.
- Subjects
TEXAS; DATA envelopment analysis; EDUCATIONAL change; LINEAR programming; RENT (Economic theory); SCHOOL districts; ENVIRONMENTAL regulations; EDUCATIONAL innovations; RESOURCE allocation; MANAGEMENT science; LABOR unions; MINORITY students; MANAGEMENT
- Publication
Management Science, 1999, Vol 45, Issue 4, p608
- ISSN
0025-1909
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1287/mnsc.45.4.608