Economies of scale and governance of library systems: evidence from West Virginia

Public libraries are a billion dollar industry in the United States. We explore the institutional determinants of public library technical efficiency using data from West Virginia. We first document considerable cross-district variation in library efficiency. While the average library district in ou...

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Main Authors: Ferreira Neto, A.B (Author), Hall, J.C (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Verlag 2019
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