关键词: 平行结构DEA, 小学教育, 性别, 资源配置效率

Abstract: Primary education is the foundation of the education stage and part of our compulsory education. However, how to improve the efficiency of resource allocation in primary education in each province is a question worth considering when the gender ratios of the provinces are quite different. In order to avoid the large difference in gender ratio between male and female populations in different provinces which may affect the evaluation of the efficiency of the allocation of primary education resources, the parallel structure DEA model can be used to treat student gender as two different parallel subsystems to measure the resource allocation of primary education in China's provinces during 2012~2018. The study finds that the total system efficiency of primary education resource allocation in most provinces has not reached the effective boundary, and there is still room for improvement. The efficiency of male students in primary education is usually better than that of female students in primary education. However, with the improvement of education system in recent years, the efficiency of female students in primary education is on the rise. In addition, the efficiency of primary education resource allocation in western China is generally better than that in eastern and central regions in some years, but the efficiency of the overall primary education system in the central and eastern regions is relatively stable, while the efficiency of the primary education system in the western region fluctuates greatly.

Key words: parallel structure DEA model, primary education, gender, resource allocation efficiency