Evaluating efficient public good provision: theory and evidence from a generalised conditional efficiency model for public libraries
Abstract: "Provision of most public goods (e.g., health care, libraries, education, police, fire protection, utilities) can be characterised by a two-stage production process. In the first stage, basic inputs (e.g., labour and capital) are used to generate service potential (e.g., opening hours, materials), which is then, in the second stage, transformed into observed outputs (e.g., school outcomes, library circulation, crimes solved). As final outputs are also affected by demand-side factors, conflating both production stages likely leads to biased inferences about public productive (in)efficiency and its determinants. Hence, this paper uses a specially tailored, fully non-parametric efficiency model allowing for both outlying observations and heterogeneity to analyse efficient public good provision in stage one only. We employ a dataset comprising all 290 Flemish public libraries. Our findings suggest that ideological stance of the local government, wealth and density of the local populati
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Evaluierung der effizienten Bereitstellung öffentlicher Güter: Theorie und Belege aus einem allgemeinem Modell bedingter Effizienz für öffentliche Bibliotheken
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource, 27 S.
- Language
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Englisch
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Veröffentlichungsversion
- Bibliographic citation
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Discussion Papers / Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Schwerpunkt Märkte und Politik, Forschungsprofessur und Projekt The Future of Fiscal Federalism ; Bd. 2010-14
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Wirtschaft
Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft
- Keyword
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Öffentliches Gut
Sachwert
Bewertung
Effizienz
Öffentliche Bibliothek
Bibliothek
Schätzung
:z Geschichte 2007
Flandern
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Veröffentlichung
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Berlin
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2010
- Creator
- Contributor
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Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-257947
- Rights
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Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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Associated
- De Witte, Kristof
- Geys, Benny
- Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH
Time of origin
- 2010
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