AN EDUCATIONAL EFFICIENCY INDEX FOR THE CITIES OF THE RIO GRANDE DO NORTE: A DSBM APPROACH
Education; Efficiency; Dynamic DEA.
This research aimed to estimate the Educational Efficiency Frontier of the municipalities of the state of Rio Grande do Norte, at a fundamental level, in the period from 2011 to 2017. The methodology used was the Dynamic model proposed by Tone and Tsutsui (2010). The study used secondary variables extracted from the main educational sites in the country, such as MEC, INEP, and SIOPE. The results showed that only 28 municipalities were located on the global efficiency boundary and that most of them are concentrated in the Western Potiguar mesoregion. Although the inefficiency index reached 77.24%, 57 municipalities had efficiency scores above 0.8. The results indicate that municipal managers should review how they allocate educational resources in order to improve the indicators of these municipalities.