Special issue on “Efficiency in Education, Health and other Public Services”

• Date: 01 September 2018
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/itor.12555
• Published date: 01 September 2018

Intl. Trans. in Op. Res. 25 (2018) 1713–1714

DOI: 10.1111/itor.12555

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Call for Papers

Special issue on “Efficiency in Education, Health

and other Public Services”

Guest Editors

Tommaso Agasisti, Kristof De Witte, Geraint Johnes and Jill Johnes

Improving the efficiency of public sector organizations is a major challenge in the context of

public finance and economic development, where fiscal consolidation has become an essential

characteristic of anyreform. Recent reforms havestarted to address these issues with the introduction

of performance-based funding. But this requires an accurate measurement of performance or

efficiency by assessing the way in which inputs (human and financial resources) are transformed

into outputs (public services of a given quality).

The objective of this special issue of the International Transactionsin Operational Research (ITOR)

is to focus on specific challenges around measuring performance in the education, health and other

public services sectors. It will gather together papers on new methods, applications of existing

techniques, and advancesin theoretical and empirical research in the area of public sector efficiency,

performance measurement, and policy.

The deadline for submission is January 31, 2019. Although we strongly encourage authors who

presented work in these areas at the 6th International Workshop on “Efficiency in Education,

Health and other Public Services” (held in Huddersfield Business School, Huddersfield, UK,

September 6–7, 2018) to submit their manuscripts, this Call for Papers is also open to the

entire community of academics and practitioners. Topics for this special issue include (but are

not limited to):

rTheoretical developments in frontier estimation methods;

rApplications of frontier estimation methods in the context of efficiency in education, health or

other public services;

rOther empirical applications in the context of efficiency in education, health or other public

services;

rPapers addressing policy in the context of efficiency in education, health or other public services.

Each paper will be peer-reviewed according to the editorial policy of ITOR (http://www3.

interscience.wiley.com/journal/118505725/home), published by the International Federation of

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