| Determinants of efficiency in the provision of municipal street-cleaning and refuse collection services. | |
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PMID: 21339060 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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Effective waste management systems can make critical contributions to public health, environmental sustainability and economic development. The challenge affects every person and institution in society, and measures cannot be undertaken without data collection and a quantitative analysis approach. In this paper, the two-stage double bootstrap procedure of Simar and Wilson (2007) is used to estimate the efficiency determinants of Spanish local entities in the provision of public street-cleaning and refuse collection services. The purpose is to identify factors that influence efficiency. The final sample comprised 1072 municipalities. In the first stage, robust efficiency estimates are obtained with Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). We apply the second stage, based on a truncated-regression, to estimate the effect of a group of environmental factors on DEA estimates. The results show the existence of a significant relation between efficiency and all the variables analysed (per capita income, urban population density, the comparative index of the importance of tourism and that of the whole economic activity). We have also considered the influence of a dummy categorical variable - the political sign of the governing party - on the efficient provision of the services under study. The results from the methodology proposed show that municipalities governed by progressive parties are more efficient. |
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Bernardino Benito-López; María Del Rocio Moreno-Enguix; José Solana-Ibañez |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2011-2-19 |
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Title: Waste management (New York, N.Y.) Volume: - ISSN: 1879-2456 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2011 Feb |
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Created Date: 2011-2-22 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9884362 Medline TA: Waste Manag Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
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University of Murcia, Spain. |
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