1. Refereed Journal // 2012

    Value for Money? German Local Government Efficiency in a Comparative Perspective

    In this article, we investigate the cost efficiency of German local governments in the state of Baden-Wu¨ rttemberg in 2004 using a stochastic frontier approach. Besides being the first study on German data,…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2012

    Computers as pedagogical tools in Brazil: a pseudo-panel analysis

    The number of schools that have access to computers and the internet has increased rapidly since the beginning of the nineties. However evidence of their effectiveness as pedagogical tools to acquire reading and…