This Paper examines the education literature through the lens of sorting. It argues that how individuals sort across … neighborhoods, schools and households (spouses), can have important consequences for the acquisition of human capital and inequality …. It discusses the implications of different education finance systems for sorting and analyses the efficiency and welfare …

The changes made to Australian higher education financing in the 1996-97 Budget are arguable the most significant since …

This paper assesses the potential to raise public spending efficiency in the primary and secondary education sector …...<P>Indicateurs de performance de l'efficacité des dépenses publiques d'éducation dans l'enseignement primaire et secondaire …<BR>Ce document évalue les possibilités d'accroître l'efficacité des dépenses publiques d'éducation dans l'enseignement primaire et …

The Australian education system fares well in international comparison with regards to PISA test scores and the higher … education system attracts an increasing number of foreign students. Vocational education and training (VET) is an important part … of the post–secondary education system, equipping individuals with the skills to enter or re–enter the labour force and …

spend comparatively few years in formal education, and the quality of the education they receive is lower than in other OECD … countries. This paper discusses the performance of education services up to the upper secondary level. It assesses both the … efficiency (outcome for money invested) and the equity of the system and shows that the education system has to be improved …

of education and training services in Portugal and shows that improvements are needed to narrow the significant human … in formal education, and they do not perform as well as children from other OECD countries. Adults, especially the least … resources devoted to education and training but from inefficiencies and misallocation of spending, and weaknesses in the quality …

relationship between institutional and policy settings and the efficiency of public spending on primary and secondary education …'efficacité des dépenses publiques consacrées à l'éducation primaire et secondaire dans les pays de l'OCDE. Cette analyse s'appuie sur …

challenge by raising education spending and expanding the capacity of the education system in key areas such as pre …-primary education and increasing participation in education beyond the age of 16. Nevertheless, performance on international tests of … cognitive ability remains significantly below the standards of the best performing OECD countries and the education system seems …

The paper studies the optimal education policy of a budget-constrained utilitarian government. Households differ in … information. Households can choose to use private education, but cannot borrow to finance it. The results we obtain are striking …. The optimal education policy is elitist: it increases the spread between the education achievement of the bright and the …

it has taken place, attention needs to be given to a whole range of issues. These include : scale of higher education …, funding, university/government relations, research, diversity, quality, higher education and vocational education and training …. The reforms that have occurred in the Astralian higher education sector in recent years, and those that are currently …