total factor productivity of production؛
Mandana Ghafoori Sadatieh; Mahdi Khoda Parast Mashhadi; Mostafa Salimifar; Mostafa Kazemi
Volume 8, Issue 29 , December 2017, , Pages 31-44
Abstract
This study aims to measure the external efficiency of formal education and then evaluating the effects of economic growth in Iran during 1957 to 2013. External efficiency, is the responsibility of educational system to social system in term of individual, economic, political and cultural dimensions. ...
Read More
This study aims to measure the external efficiency of formal education and then evaluating the effects of economic growth in Iran during 1957 to 2013. External efficiency, is the responsibility of educational system to social system in term of individual, economic, political and cultural dimensions. The research method to measure the relative efficiency is the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method with the input-oriented and constant returns to scale, and efficient units are ranked using Anderson-Peterson (AP). Using the econometric method of GMM to evaluate the effect of the external efficiency of education on the economic growth. Results showed that in 85 percentages of examined years, external efficiency of education is acheived. Inputs that affect respectively on the external efficiency are educational equity, technology infrastructure, education expenditures and quality. Outputs that affect respectively on the external efficiency are freedom, environment protection, family sustainability and establishment. For inefficient units, the most of output shortage related to security and maximum output surplus is for education expenditures. External efficiency of education, labor and capital have a positive effect on economic growth in Iran and external efficiency of education is the cause of economic growth.
