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Performance Indicators for Public Spending Efficiency in Primary and Secondary Education
Sutherland, Douglas - 2007
This paper assesses the potential to raise public spending efficiency in the primary and secondary education sector … efficiency in the provision of education, the paper develops a set of comparable indicators which reflect international … differences in the levels of efficiency in the primary and secondary education sector both within and among countries. The paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012730631
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Performance Indicators for Public Spending Efficiency in Primary and Secondary Education
Sutherland, Douglas; Price, Robert; Joumard, Isabelle; … - 2007
This paper assesses the potential to raise public spending efficiency in the primary and secondary education sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012445903
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Linkages Between Performance and Institutions in the Primary and Secondary Education Sector
Sutherland, Douglas - 2007
relationship between institutional and policy settings and the efficiency of public spending on primary and secondary education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444634
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Linkages between Performance and Institutions in the Primary and Secondary Education Sector
Sutherland, Douglas; Price, Robert - 2007
relationship between institutional and policy settings and the efficiency of public spending on primary and secondary education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014049440
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Does Money Matter for Schools?
Holmlund, Helena; McNally, Sandra; Viarengo, Martina - 2021
There is considerable disagreement in the academic literature about whether raising school expenditure improves educational outcomes. Yet changing the level of resources is one of the key policy levers open to governments. In the UK, school expenditure has increased by about 40 per cent in real...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324901
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The effects of early childhood intervention on child development and early skill formation : evidence from a randomized experiment
Sandner, Malte - 2012
This paper presents results from a randomized evaluation of a home visiting program for disadvantaged first time mothers and their families implemented in three German federal states. At the end of the first year of the program, children in home visited families perform significantly better than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009665017
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Keeping kids in school and out of work : compulsory schooling and child labor in Turkey
Dayıoğlu, Meltem; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2020
We examine the effects of a compulsory schooling reform on child labor in Turkey, which extended the duration of schooling from 5 to 8 years while substantially improving the schooling infrastructure. We employ four rounds of Child Labor Surveys with a very rich set of outcomes. The reform...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012226816
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Does additional spending help urban schools? An evaluation using boundary discontinuities
Gibbons, Steve; McNally, Sandra; Viarengo, Martina - 2012
Improving the educational attainment of disadvantaged students in urban schools is a priority for policy worldwide, but existing research is equivocal about the effectiveness of additional funding for achieving this objective. This study exploits anomalies in the spatial dimension of school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282333
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Education and Poverty in Vietnam : A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis
Cloutier, Marie-Hélène - 2014
Education is often promoted as the solution to poverty in the developing world. Yet, fiscal discipline has led to … reductions in public spending on education. We examine the poverty impacts of a cut in public subsidies to higher education … and complex impacts through various channels: a direct increase in the private costs of higher education, a reduction in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012708968
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Education and later-life mortality : evidence from a school reform in Japan
Masuda, Kazuya; Shigeoka, Hitoshi - 2023
We examine the mortality effects of a 1947 school reform in Japan, which extended compulsory schooling from primary to secondary school by as much as 3 years. The abolition of secondary school fees also indicates that those affected by the reform likely came from disadvantaged families who could...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014311988