Total public expenditure

Total public expenditure that excludes public investment expenditure and public debt repayment expenditure

OLS

Frontier

OLS

Frontier

coef.

t

coef.

z

coef.

t

coef.

z

lnz

0.523

***

2.90

0.491

***

3.21

0.438

***

3.39

0.452

***

4.08

lnw

0.135

1.52

0.128

*

1.87

0.144

**

2.05

0.102

*

1.68

lnpop

−0.279

**

−2.02

−0.185

**

−2.56

−0.088

−0.82

−0.000

***

−0.00

ln(pop)2

0.049

***

7.99

0.046

***

11.27

0.042

***

8.51

0.038

***

11.04

lnarea

0.141

***

10.92

0.139

***

11.44

0.117

***

11.85

0.116

***

14.42

r_u15

3.526

***

3.73

3.801

***

4.46

2.202

3.41

3.629

**

4.11

r_o65

1.901

***

6.47

1.967

***

6.28

1.348

***

5.86

1.430

**

6.46

constant

9.162

***

6.01

8.596

***

9.12

8.299

***

7.94

7.913

***

9.27

Inefficiency

d_Mrthod_2

0.256

3.25

0.109

0.50

d_Method_3

0.399

**

2.49

0.383

**

2.11

constant

−3.607

***

−8.94

−3.764

***

−19.73

Adj R2

0.968

0.978

Log likelihood

258.991

344.426

Technical efficiency

Average

1.167

1.150

Min

1.019

1.015

Max

2.196

1.685

Sample

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