Private contribution on public schools and academic performance. Efficiency measures using non-parametric frontier techniques

This study measures the effect of voluntary contributions from private companies on the academic quality of public schools in Colombia. The impact is measured by integrating non-parametric frontier techniques in efficiency... [ view full abstract ]

This study measures the effect of voluntary contributions from private companies on the academic quality of public schools in Colombia. The impact is measured by integrating non-parametric frontier techniques in efficiency analysis (order-m) with a meta-frontier framework, which is a contribution of this study to the empirical literature on efficiency in education. This methodology decomposes the students’ total inefficiency to estimate the direction and magnitude of the Private Contribution Effect (PCE). With a sample of 101,874 students, we found a positive PCE that for certain regions reaches a maximum equivalent, on average, equal to 25% of the total effect.