Resumen

MORENO MORENO, Luis Ramón. Evaluación de la eficiencia del gasto gubernamental en México: El caso de la educación primaria. Región y sociedad [online]. 2008, vol.20, n.41, pp.7-32. ISSN 2448-4849.

In Mexico there are significant advances regarding the expansion of educational services, but they have not produced a decrease in school desertion or an increase in terminal efficiency. In this article, we analyze the performance of primary education in the Mexican states by applying a nonparametric technique called Free Disposal Hull (FDH). With this tool, we aim to identify the appropriate public expenditure to reach certain objectives in the education field and determine if the present expenditure is being used efficiently, that is, if the best results in education are being obtained at the same cost or at the lowest possible cost.

Palabras llave : FDH; efficiency production frontiers; basic education; public expenditure; federal states; efficiency score.