A stochastic frontier cost function for residential child care provision
构建并估计了一个随机前沿成本函数，用于分析英国地方政府下属儿童寄宿照护机构的成本效率，并测算了各地方政府的无效率程度。
Abstract Within a public authority (the firm), there are often several production units. Costs and policy formulation are concerned with the units themselves, though inefficiency might arise at both the firm and unit levels. A stochastic frontier cost function is developed and estimated to describe one such situation where the firms are English local authorities and the production units are homes providing residential care for children. Measures of inefficiency are found for individual authorities.