TY - JOUR
T1 - Efficiency and productivity growth in Chinese universities during the post-reform period
AU - Ng, Ying Chu
AU - Li, Sung Ko
N1 - Funding information:
The authors are indebted to the referee in providing valuable comments and suggestions for revising the paper. The authors also acknowledge with gratitude the generous support of the Research Committee of Hong Kong Baptist University for the project (FRG/04-05/I-21) without which the timely production of the current publication would not have been feasible.
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PY - 2009/6
Y1 - 2009/6
N2 - The social science research performance of Chinese universities is examined using panel data. The universities are found to be very inefficient in general, with not much difference between regions. By far the largest single cause of universities′ overall technical efficiency is pure technical efficiency, along with a considerable amount of scale inefficiency and a modest amount of congestion. No obvious regional differences in the universities′ productivity growth are apparent between 1998 and 2002. Decomposition of the Malmquist productivity index indicates that although there has been technological progress over the years, poor scale efficiency and technical efficiency have resulted in deterioration in the universities′ average productivity. There are signs of increasing congestion during the period studied.
AB - The social science research performance of Chinese universities is examined using panel data. The universities are found to be very inefficient in general, with not much difference between regions. By far the largest single cause of universities′ overall technical efficiency is pure technical efficiency, along with a considerable amount of scale inefficiency and a modest amount of congestion. No obvious regional differences in the universities′ productivity growth are apparent between 1998 and 2002. Decomposition of the Malmquist productivity index indicates that although there has been technological progress over the years, poor scale efficiency and technical efficiency have resulted in deterioration in the universities′ average productivity. There are signs of increasing congestion during the period studied.
KW - Chinese universities
KW - Congestion
KW - Malmquist productivity index
KW - Research
KW - Technical efficiency
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U2 - 10.1016/j.chieco.2009.03.004
DO - 10.1016/j.chieco.2009.03.004
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:67349108768
SN - 1043-951X
VL - 20
SP - 183
EP - 192
JO - China Economic Review
JF - China Economic Review
IS - 2
ER -