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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>0185-2760</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista de la educación superior]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Rev. educ. sup]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>0185-2760</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Asociación Nacional de Universidades e Instituciones de Educación Superior de la República Mexicana A.C.]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S0185-27602017000300047</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1016/j.resu.2017.06.002</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Una medición de la eficiencia interna en una universidad argentina usando el método de fronteras estocásticas]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[A measurement of the internal efficiency in an Argentine university using the Stochastic Frontiers method]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Ibáñez Martín]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[María María]]></given-names>
</name>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Morresi]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Silvia Susana]]></given-names>
</name>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Delbianco]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Fernando]]></given-names>
</name>
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</contrib-group>
<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad Nacional del Sur Departamento de Economía ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Bahía Blanca ]]></addr-line>
<country>Argentina</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>09</month>
<year>2017</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>09</month>
<year>2017</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>46</volume>
<numero>183</numero>
<fpage>47</fpage>
<lpage>62</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0185-27602017000300047&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0185-27602017000300047&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0185-27602017000300047&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen: Los estudios sobre eficiencia académica suelen centrarse en el rendimiento de los alumnos, dejando de lado las características específicas de las instituciones donde cursan sus estudios. En el presente trabajo proponemos una metodología para la evaluación de la eficiencia en Instituciones de Educación Superior, con aplicación a la Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina; al utilizar la metodología de fronteras estocásticas encontramos que la eficiencia de las unidades de producción (carreras universitarias) se encuentra fuertemente determinada por el perfil del alumnado que atiende y las condiciones del entorno.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract: Studies of academic efficiency tend to focus on student performance, leaving aside the specific characteristics of the institutions where the students are enrolled. This paper proposes a methodology for evaluating efficiency in higher education institutions, which was applied at the National University of the South, in Argentina. After employing the Stochastic Frontier methodology, we concluded that the efficiency of the production units (university careers) is strongly determined by the students&#8217; profiles and the surrounding conditions.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Frontera estocástica]]></kwd>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Educational efficiency]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Stochastic frontier]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Higher education]]></kwd>
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