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 | 479 | 479 | 479 | 479 |