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Benny Geys - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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citizen coproduction and efficient public good provision theory and evidence from local public libraries
European Journal of Operational Research, 2013Co-Authors: Kristof De Witte, Benny GeysAbstract:In both public administration and economics, efficiency is brought forward as an important criterion for evaluating administrative actions. Clearly, its value as an assessment principle depends on our ability to adequately measure efficiency. This article argues that citizen’s coproduction in public services requires a careful reassessment of how we approach the measurement of productive efficiency in public service delivery. Theoretically, we illustrate that using observable outcomes (e.g., Library Circulation, school results, health outcomes, fires extinguished, and crimes solved) as output indicators is inappropriate and leads to biased estimates of public service providers’ productive efficiency. This bias arises because citizens co-determine final outputs, leaving them at least partly beyond the service providers’ control. Empirically, we find supportive evidence of both the existence and importance of such ‘demand-induced’ bias.
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evaluating efficient public good provision theory and evidence from a generalised conditional efficiency model for public libraries
Journal of Urban Economics, 2011Co-Authors: Kristof De Witte, Benny GeysAbstract: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.
Kristof De Witte - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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citizen coproduction and efficient public good provision theory and evidence from local public libraries
European Journal of Operational Research, 2013Co-Authors: Kristof De Witte, Benny GeysAbstract:In both public administration and economics, efficiency is brought forward as an important criterion for evaluating administrative actions. Clearly, its value as an assessment principle depends on our ability to adequately measure efficiency. This article argues that citizen’s coproduction in public services requires a careful reassessment of how we approach the measurement of productive efficiency in public service delivery. Theoretically, we illustrate that using observable outcomes (e.g., Library Circulation, school results, health outcomes, fires extinguished, and crimes solved) as output indicators is inappropriate and leads to biased estimates of public service providers’ productive efficiency. This bias arises because citizens co-determine final outputs, leaving them at least partly beyond the service providers’ control. Empirically, we find supportive evidence of both the existence and importance of such ‘demand-induced’ bias.
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evaluating efficient public good provision theory and evidence from a generalised conditional efficiency model for public libraries
Journal of Urban Economics, 2011Co-Authors: Kristof De Witte, Benny GeysAbstract: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.
Herbert S Sichel - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a bivariate model to predict Library Circulation
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 1991Co-Authors: Aiala Barr, Herbert S SichelAbstract:The appropriateness of fitting an approximately linear graph for the data collected over a two‐year period in Library Circulation has been questioned recently. The models, which exist in statistical analysis of Library Circulation, are able only to present linear regression. These models are based on classical bivariate discrete distributions which are determined by their univariate marginals and are characterized by a much restricted correlation structure. In this article we propose the analysis of Library Circulation data with the help of a new statistical model that creates a most flexible regression curve. © 1991 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Robert E Molyneux - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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squeeze play public Library Circulation and budget trends fy1992 fy2004
Public Library Quarterly, 2007Co-Authors: Robert E MolyneuxAbstract:ABSTRACT This article analyzes longitudinal data from the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS) for the 12 years from 1992 to 2004. The statistics demonstrate that Library Circulation rose faster than population served. Aggregate Library income, meanwhile, first declined then rose slowly from their lows in 2003. In the same period, operating expenses rose faster than income, squeezing purchasing power. The article provides more detail for purchase of electronic materials, by type of employees and “other” expense categories. The author concludes with a discussion of the factors that will affect Library income in the years immediately after the period studied.
Stewart E Saunders - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Library Circulation of university press publications
1996Co-Authors: Stewart E SaundersAbstract:PREPRINT Library Circulation of University Press Publications By E. Stewart Saunders Purdue University Libraries Final Draft Published In Journal of Scholarly Publishing Vol. 27 (April 1996): 164-8 A Publication of the University of Toronto Press Press website: www.utpjournals.com © University of Toronto Press Incorporated 1996. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of University of Toronto Press Incorporated.