Efficiency Evaluation of Financial Education Expenditure in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River

摘要

This paper uses the data of financial education expenditures of 28 cities in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River in 2011-2017, and uses data envelopment analysis to study the efficiency of financial education expenditure in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. The basic conclusions are: the overall efficiency of financial education expenditure in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River is low, mainly due to the low scale efficiency; regional differences in the efficiency of financial education expenditure in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and the highest efficiency of education expenditure in Changsha, Zhuzhou and Xiangtan City Group (CZX), Wuhan City Circle (WH) is second, and Poyang Lake City Group (PYH) is the lowest.