02079cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF017445 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781475578966 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Beidas-Strom, Samya. What has happened to Sub-Regional Public Sector Efficiency in England since the Crisis? / Samya Beidas-Strom. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2017. 1 online resource (44 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This paper estimates public sector service efficiency in England at the sub-regional level, studying changes post crisis during the large fiscal consolidation effort. It finds that despite the overall spending cut (and some caveats owing to data availability), efficiency broadly improved across sectors, particularly in education. However, quality adjustments and other factors could have contributed (e.g., sector and technology-induced reforms). It also finds that sub-regions with the weakest initial levels of efficiency converged the most post crisis. These sub-regional changes in public sector efficiency are associated with changes in labor productivity. Finally, the paper finds that regional disparities in the productivity of public services have narrowed, especially in the education and health sectors, with education attainment, population density, private spending on high school education and class size being to be the most important factors explaining sub-regional variation since 2003. Mode of access: Internet IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2017/036 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2017/036/001.2017.issue-036-en.xml IMF e-Library