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Technical Efficiency of Rural Water Utilities

Year: 1995

Type: article

Abstract: Technical efficiency of rural water utilities is determined using frontier production functions. An indirect production function is developed to model the two-step production process of a local government-controlled firm. Data from 26 rural Nevada water utilities are used to estimate inefficiency in terms of firm-specific variables. A multistep estimation procedure is used instead of single-step maximum likelihood estimation. Model selection tests are used to choose the best model. Privately owned utilities are most efficient; self-governing water districts are the least efficient. Municipal governments operate the most and least efficient utilities.

Source: RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.30764

Authors: Bhattacharyya, Arunava, Harris, Thomas R., Narayanan, Rangesan, Raffiee, Kambiz

Language: English

Topic: Efficiency Analysis Using DEA

Subfield: Management Science and Operations Research

Field: Decision Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Clean water and sanitation, Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1576232704

FWCI: 0.698

Cites: 26

Cited by: 33

Related to: 10