Analisis Kinerja Pengeluaran Pemerintah di Sektor Kesehatan di Provinsi Jawa Timur
Widya Sylviana, Ayina Salma

Airlangga University

Abstract

This study aims to examine and analyze the level of technical efficiency of district and city government expenditures in East Java Province in the health sector before and during the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as to analyze the factors that affect the technical efficiency of health budgets in districts and cities of East Java Province before and during the Covid-19 pandemic. during the Covid-19 pandemic. This study uses secondary data for 4 years (2018-2021), before Covid-19 (2018-2019) and during Covid-19 (2020-2021). The data comes from 29 districts and 9 cities in East Java Province obtained from the Directorat Jenderal Pajak dan Keuangan (DJPK) and the Central Statistics Agency (BPS). The method used is Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) with output oriented approach and VRS assumptions, and uses Tobit Panel Regression. This study shows several findings. First, there are differences in the number of districts and cities in East Java that achieve an optimal level of technical efficiency from year to year. During the Covid-19 pandemic, there was a decrease in the value of technical efficiency in the health budget in districts/cities in East Java Province compared to before the Covid-19 pandemic. Overall, both before and during the Covid-19 pandemic, more than 50% of the districts/cities in East Java Province in managing their health budgets have not yet achieved technical efficiency. Only 2 districts and 3 cities consistently achieved technical efficiency in health budgets both before and during the pandemic. Second, the factors that have a significant effect on the technical efficiency of the health budget before and during the Covid-19 pandemic in the districts/cities of East Java are the average length of school and the regional dummy (1 is the city, 0 is the district). Furthermore, the factors that do not have a significant effect on the efficiency of the health budget before and during the Covid-19 pandemic are GDP and the number of hospital beds . While the population has no significant effect on the technical efficiency of the health budget before the Covid-19 pandemic and has a significant effect on the health budget during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Keywords: Fiscal decentralization, Government Expenditure, Health, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), Technical Efficiency

Topic: Public economics