Measuring technical efficiency and total factor productivity change with undesirable outputs in Stata

• Autores: Daoping Wang, Kerui Du, Ning Zhang
• Localización: The Stata journal, ISSN 1536-867X, Vol. 22, Nº. 1, 2022, págs. 103-124
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In this article, we introduce two community-contributed data envel- opment analysis commands for measuring technical efficiency and productivity change in Stata. Over the last decades, an important theoretical progression of data envelopment analysis, a nonparametric method widely used to assess the performance of decision-making units, is the incorporation of undesirable outputs.

    Models able to deal with undesirable outputs have been developed and applied in empirical studies for assessing the sustainability of decision-making units. These models are getting more and more attention from researchers and managers. The teddf command discussed in the present article allows users to measure technical efficiency, both radial and nonradial, when some outputs are undesirable. Tech- nical efficiency measures are obtained by solving linear programming problems.

    The gtfpch command we also describe here provides tools for measuring produc- tivity change, for example, the Malmquist–Luenberger index and the Luenberger indicator. We provide a brief overview of the nonparametric efficiency and produc- tivity change measurement accounting for undesirable outputs, and we describe the syntax and options of the new commands. We also illustrate with examples how to perform the technical efficiency and productivity analysis with the newly introduced commands.