Technical Efficiency in the Decentralized Care of the Developmentally Disabled
分析底特律大都市区发展性障碍者集体之家的技术效率，使用线性规划构建生产前沿，并通过敏感性和回归分析探讨影响效率的因素。
This paper analyzes the technical efficiency of group home care for the developmentally disabled in the Detroit metropolitan area. Linear programming methods are used to construct a production frontier that allows measurement of relative technical efficiency among homes in the sample. A sensitivity analysis is performed to identify influential observations in the data that might result from measurement error that could distort the efficiency measures. A regression analysis is undertaken to examine the effect of various factors on measured efficiency. Policy implications are discussed in the concluding section. Copyright 1994 by MIT Press.