Exploring the link between government funding and efficiency in nonprofit colleges |
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| Authors: | Jason Coupet |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Public Administration, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina |
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| Abstract: | Previous literature has suggested that federal funding can hinder the efficiency of nonprofit organizations, but this has yet not been empirically tested. This study used a two‐stage data envelopment analysis (DEA) model to measure the efficiency of a set of private nonprofit teaching‐oriented colleges, then estimate the impact of federal and state funding on organizational efficiency. The findings indicate that, on average, increases in neither state nor federal funding effect efficiency of nonprofit colleges. Increasing state funding negatively impacted the efficiency of public colleges (N = 799). This study suggests that the challenges for nonprofits that accompany government funding may not rise to a quantifiable negative effect on efficiency. |
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| Keywords: | data envelopment analysis efficiency external control government funding resource dependence |
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