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Performance Assessment of Children and Youth Households

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This study purposes a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) framework to assess the performance of Non-Profit Organizations that look after children and young people. The DEA method is used to assess the managerial efficiency of eight institutions from Bragança district, since 2010 to 2013. The model evaluates each institution concerning the reduction of operational and staff costs incurred in providing social services to the number of users observed in each unit. A fair policy for the allocation of subsidies is designed according to the performance of institutions in order to support the regulator.

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  1. CGEI/INESC TEC, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Bragança, Portugal

    Clara Bento Vaz

  2. OBEGEF/UNIAG, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Bragança, Portugal

    Jorge Alves

  3. Instituto de Segurança Social, I.P., Coimbra, Portugal

    Ivo Mendes

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  1. Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal

    Ana Paula Ferreira Dias Barbosa Póvoa

  2. Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre, Portalegre, Portugal

    Joao Luis de Miranda

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Vaz, C.B., Alves, J., Mendes, I. (2015). Performance Assessment of Children and Youth Households. In: Póvoa, A., de Miranda, J. (eds) Operations Research and Big Data. Studies in Big Data, vol 15. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24154-8_28

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