Putting Out The Trash

Measuring Municipal Service Efficiency in U.S. Cities

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6404640
AutoresAdrian Moore (Reason Foundation), Adrian T Moore, James Nolan (0000-0002-1273-8163, University of Saskatchewan), Geoffrey F Segal (Reason Foundation)
Año2005
Volumen41
Número2
Páginas237-259
Fecha de publicación2005-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaUrban Affairs Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1078-0874 • E-ISSN: 1552-8332
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1078087405279466
OpenAlexW2740305236
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas15

There is a considerable literature describing the performance of municipal services that often uses imperfect or partial measures of efficiency. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) has emerged as an effective tool for measuring the relative efficiency of public service provision. This article uses DEA to measure the relative efficiency of 11 municipal services in 46 of the largest cities in the United States over a period of 6 years. In addition, this information is used to explore efficiency differences between cities and services and provide input into a statistical analysis to explore factors that may explain differences in efficiency between cities. Finally, the authors discuss municipal governments’ use of performance measures and problems with collecting municipal data for benchmarking

Benchmarking · Business · Data envelopment analysis · Economics · Efficiency · Environmental economics · Measure (data warehouse · Public economics · Service (business · Statistics · Computer Science · Efficiency Analysis Using DEA · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Mathematics · Marketing