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Evaluating efficient public good provision: Theory and evidence from a generalised conditional efficiency model for public libraries

机译:评估有效的公共物品提供:公共图书馆通用条件效率模型的理论和证据

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Provision of most public goods (e.g., health care, libraries, education, police, fire protection, utilities) can be characterized by a two-stage production process. In the first-stage, basic inputs (e.g., labor 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 thereby 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 population and source of library funding (i.e., local funding versus intergovernmental transfers) strongly affect library productive efficiency.
机译:大部分公共物品(例如卫生保健,图书馆,教育,警察,消防,公用事业)的提供可以分为两个阶段的生产过程。在第一阶段,基本投入(例如,劳动力和资本)用于产生服务潜力(例如,营业时间,材料),然后在第二阶段将其转化为观察到的产出(例如,学校成果,图书馆发行,犯罪得以解决)。由于最终产出也受到需求方因素的影响,因此将两个生产阶段合并可能会导致对公共生产(效率)低下及其决定因素的推论。因此,本文使用了专门定制的,完全非参数的效率模型,该模型允许仅在第一阶段就分析外部观察和异质性来分析有效的公共物品供给。因此,我们采用了包括所有290个佛兰芒公共图书馆的数据集。我们的发现表明,地方政府的意识形态立场,当地人口的财富和密度以及图书馆资金的来源(即地方资金与政府间转移资金)对图书馆的生产效率有很大影响。

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