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Service Level Provision in Municipalities: A Flexible Directional Distance Composite Indicator
No full textWith increasing decentralization of public activities to the municipalities, it has become imperative to deploy an enhanced service provision analysis at the local level. This paper suggests the innovative use of a composite indicator to measure the multidimensional aspects of the local public provision comprising of several commonly administered municipal tasks. We propose a robust conditional version of a directional distance composite indicator with weight restrictions based on the municipal expenditure composition. Specifically, we deal with the presence of “undesirable” municipal service indicators and with the heterogeneity among the municipalities in their political preferences, priority public activities and operating environment characteristics. To illustrate the applicability of the suggested method, we show the construction of the municipal service provision composite indicator for 307 Flemish municipalities over the year 2006–2011.sponsorship: We are grateful to Wim Moesen, Peter Bogetoft, Tom Van Puyenbroeck, Benny Geys, Ana Camanho, Massimo Riccaboni, Laura Carosi, Riccardo Cambini, three anonymous referees and the participants at the 6th Workshop on Efficiency and Productivity Analysis (Porto, Portugal) and at the 15th European Workshop on Ef-ficiency and Productivity Analysis (London, UK) for their valuable comments and suggestions on a previous version of the paper. Giovanna D'Inverno gratefully acknowledges financial support from Research Foundation - Flanders, FWO (Postdoctoral Fellowship 12U0219N). Kristof De Witte acknowledges financial support from Research Foundation - Flanders, FWO (Grant G068518N). (Research Foundation - Flanders, FWO|12U0219N, Research Foundation - Flanders, FWO|G068518N)status: Publishe
Edwin E. Witte
No full textEdwin E. Witte was a Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin and Chairman of the Committee on Economic Security, which oversaw the drafting of the original Social Security Act. Witte is generally acknowledged as the principal author of the Social Security legislation as it went to Congress. In later years, he consulted on the National Labor Relations Act and continued to teach and supervise Ph.D. students
Department of Economics Discussion Paper
No full textInternationalisation is a major trend in higher education worldwide. Yet, little evidence is given on the net impact of international students on national economies. This study addresses this gap by estimating the benefits against the costs driven by international students in Belgium and its Flemish region in particular. Using a unique combination of various sources of micro-data, the results show net positive benefits that exceed costs by a factor ranging between 2.4 (lower bound) to 3.1 (upper bound) times. The results vary highly with the level of education, as the ratio is the lowest for doctoral students (1.2-1.6) and highest for master students (5.1-6.3). The effect is mainly driven by a high stay rate of international students, who are likely to work in the country after graduation. When considering indirect effects, our results show that there are no significant peer effects due to the presence of international students in the classroom.status: Publishe
Schools' efficiency and equity: evidence from a stochastic frontier approach with translog specification
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Witte, Henry (Birth, 1884-06-28)
No full textAddress: 541 Race St.4151/Pg.221/1884/M W/Cinti, O./Cinti, O./K. Buecker,Mid.Original record filed in drawer labeled 'WITTE-_WOLFERT'
Supplementary data set and R-code for "Using FishSim Animation Toolchain to investigate fish behavior: A case study on mate-choice copying in sailfin mollies" by Gierszewski, S., Baker, D., Müller, K., Hütwohl, J-M., Kuhnert, K-D., Witte, K. (2018)
No full textSupplementary data set and R-code accompanying the article "Using FishSim Animation Toolchain to investigate fish behavior: A case study on mate-choice copying in sailfin mollies" by Gierszewski, S., Baker, D., Müller, K., Hütwohl, J-M., Kuhnert, K-D., Witte, K. (2018) in Journal of Visualized Experiments. e58435</div
NF-κB Signal Transduction in Novel Cancer Stem Cells from Glioblastoma and Prostate
No full textWitte K. NF-κB Signal Transduction in Novel Cancer Stem Cells from Glioblastoma and Prostate. Bielefeld: Universität Bielefeld; 2022
K. Roelandts - Familiarismen met anorganische konsonant (types Jakke, Witte, Pelle enz.). — Anthroponymica - Onomastica neerlandica - 1966 - Instituut voor naamkunde Leuven
No full textDebrie René. K. Roelandts - Familiarismen met anorganische konsonant (types Jakke, Witte, Pelle enz.). — Anthroponymica - Onomastica neerlandica - 1966 - Instituut voor naamkunde Leuven. In: Revue Internationale d'Onomastique, 20e année N°3, Septembre 1968. pp. 234-236
The effect of additional resources for schools with disadvantaged students: Evidence from a conditional efficiency model
No full textThis paper proposes an innovative approach to evaluate the causal impact of a policy change on efficiency. It combines insights from the econometric impact evaluation techniques and from the standard efficiency analysis. Specifically, we account for endogeneity issues by introducing a quasi-experimental setting within a conditional multi-input multi-output efficiency framework and decompose the overall efficiency between ‘group-specific’ efficiency (i.e., reflecting internal managerial inefficiency) and ‘program’ efficiency (i.e., explaining the impact of the policy intervention on
performance). This allows us to interpret the efficiency differences in a causal way. We demonstrate the practical usefulness of our methodology through an application to secondary and primary schools in Flanders, Belgium. In particular, exploiting exogenous thresholds, we examine whether additional resources for disadvantaged students impact the efficiency of schools. Our empirical results indicate that additional resources do not causally influence efficiency around the threshold
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