ANALYSIS OF TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY OF EXPENDITURES ON EDUCATION, HEALTH AND PUBLIC SAFETY OF THE MUNICIPALITIES OF CEARÁ

Abstract

This research seeks to evaluate the technical efficiency of municipal per capita spending on education, health and social care for municipalities cearenses, covering the year 2005. For this, it uses the methodology of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), oriented input and constant returns to scale, because they want to achieve results aimed to reduce public spending and keep the level of efficiency in service delivery to Ceará community. Accordingly, we can say that this empirical exercise to estimate the demand on technical efficiency, the efficiency scale as well as rank the
cities analyzed according to these measures and, moreover, indicate that the municipalities are considered as benchmark in each model. The results shows that the model that adds inputs and products of education services, health, safety exhibit 55% of the counties on the border of relative
efficiency. Furthermore, the specific models of Health, Education and Safety show a low technical efficiency in public social spending. The study concludes that there are some technical inefficiency regarding public spending municipal Ceará with health, education and security.