Analyzing the Technical Efficiency of School Districts in Oklahoma

Abstract

The parameters of a stochastic production frontier and the determinants of Xinefficiencyare estimated simultaneously using a maximum likelihood estimator proposedby Battese and Coelli (1995). Our results indicate that additional instructional andnoninstruction expenditures improve student performance, but only by a small amount.In addition, we find that school district size, teacher education and experience, and teachersalary affect the technical efficiency of schools (F33, F41).