The measurement of the efficiency of public education expenditure using parametric and non-parametric methods has … the efficiency of secondary education spending in emerging and developing economies. The approach accounts for the impact … of the level of development on education outcomes by constructing different efficiency frontiers for lower- and higher …

costs for different levels of schooling, we show that reducing household costs of primary education has the largest positive … impact on growth and poverty reduction in the short run. Moreover, an increase in higher education spending increases long …-run growth. These effects can be substantial even when increasing education spending comes at the expense of public …

education and the quality, or “technical efficiency” of spending. While it finds partial evidence for the claim that more …

While public education is often intended to be progressive in its effects on income distribution, in reality its … in appropriating a larger share of public education spending thereby preventing inequality reduction. The empirical part … provides tentative support for this view, showing that the progressiveness of public education spending is related to the …

Recent efforts at poverty alleviation emphasize increasing government spending on education. However, even if spending … indigenous women who have the lowest levels of education in the country. …