Abstract This study provides new evidence on school efficiency for low and middle income countries. We use data from PISA for Development (2017) for seven countries to obtain estimates on school efficiency using data envelopment analysis, both for cognitive and non-cognitive outputs, and their determinants. We find that there is a scope to increase efficiency by 20–22% via boosting both types of educational outputs and by reducing within-country disparity on schools’ efficiency scores by weakening the impact of students’ disadvantages. Our results suggest that schools cognitive inequality can be reduced alongside inefficiency. Cross-country results suggest similar drivers of efficiency across countries, at least for students’ school determinants, though we find more nuanced results on teachers and policies determinants for efficiency.

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低收入和中等收入国家的学校效率：基于 PISA 的发展学习调查分析

摘要 本研究为中低收入国家的学校效率提供了新的证据。我们使用 PISA for Development (2017) 中七个国家的数据，通过数据包络分析获得对学校效率的估计，包括认知和非认知输出及其决定因素。我们发现，通过提高两种类型的教育产出和通过削弱学生劣势的影响来减少学校效率得分的国内差异，有可能将效率提高 20-22%。我们的研究结果表明，学校的认知不平等可以随着效率低下而减少。跨国结果表明，不同国家的效率驱动因素相似，至少对于学生的学校决定因素而言是这样，尽管我们发现在教师和政策决定因素方面的结果更为细微。