Does Expansion Cause Congestion? The Case of the Older British Universities, 1994–2004

Autor: D. O. Allen, A. T. Flegg
Rok vydání: 2007
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Zdroj: Education Economics. 15:75-102
ISSN: 1469-5782
0964-5292
DOI: 10.1080/09645290601133928
Popis: This paper examines whether the rapid growth in the number of students in British universities in recent years has led to congestion, in the sense that certain universities’ output could have been higher if this expansion had been less rapid. The focus of the paper is on 45 older universities that were in existence prior to 1992. The analysis covers the period 1994/95–2003/04. Several alternative methods of measuring congestion are examined and, to check the sensitivity of the results to different specifications, three alternative Data Envelopment Analysis models are formulated. The results indicate that congestion was present throughout the decade under review, and in a wide range of universities, but whether it rose or fell is uncertain as this depends on which congestion model is used. A crucial point here is whether one assumes constant or variable returns to scale. Nonetheless, all models point to a rise in congestion between 2001/02 and 2003/04, and this may well be a result of the rapid gr...
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