This work attempts to examine how the global financial crisis has affected the education sector and more specifically, universities. So our paper examines the universities public funding especially in Europe, the mobility of teaching staff, students etc. Also the impact of the financial crisis...

Educaţia reprezentă un vector social determinant al dezvoltării omului, al evoluţiei lui spirituale, influenţând direct toate componentele câmpului social, în particular economia şi, în acest sens, orientarea resurselor, a celor financiare în special, spre susţinerea unei educaţii a...

In recent years, state legislatures, state education departments, and advocacy groups in more than thirty states have sponsored education adequacy studies, which aim to determine objectively the amount of funding needed to provide all students with a meaningful opportunity for an adequate...

This paper examines the impact of the National Endowment for the Arts on private donations to the arts. The aim of the analysis is to assess whether public funding generates a crowding effect on private giving. We distinguish between institutional and sectoral crowding phenomena and discuss...

Colorado is considering raising personal income taxes to fund a $950 million initiative. Are the increased benefits from educational attainment worth the revenue costs? This study surveys in-depth the economic literature on the impact of increased educational expenditure on future income,...

A tanulmány azt vizsgálja, hogyan alakult az egyes oktatási fokozatok egyéni és társadalmi megtérülési rátája, valamint az egyes végzettségek megszerzésének támogatottsága 1971ben, 1986ban és 1993ban. Az eredmények azt mutatják, hogy 1971 és 1993 között a...

We present a tractable stochastic endogenous growth model that explains how social capital influences economic development. In our model, social capital increases citizens' awareness of government activity. Hence, it alleviates the electoral incentives to under- invest in education, whose...

Este trabalho utiliza o modelo Network-DEA para avaliar a eficiência técnica do gasto público com educação básica nas Unidades da Federação para os anos de 2001, 2003 e 2005. É admitido que o ensino público seja gerado através de um processo produtivo ocorrendo em dois estágios. O...

Canada’s federal and provincial governments spend a lot of money subsidizing postsecondary students. Tuition and education/textbook tax credits, in particular, cost the federal government around $1.6 billion in 2012 – a sum much greater than the net cost of the Canada Student Loan Program....