The Efficiency of Public Spending on Education: An Empirical Comparison of EU Countries

Autor/in	Agasisti, Tommaso
Titel	The Efficiency of Public Spending on Education: An Empirical Comparison of EU Countries
Quelle	In: European Journal of Education, 49 (2014) 4, S.543-557 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0141-8211
DOI	10.1111/ejed.12069
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Educational Assessment; Comparative Analysis; Expenditure per Student; Socioeconomic Influences; Efficiency; Teacher Salaries; Internet; Sampling; Statistical Inference; European Union; Program for International Student Assessment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Education; assessment; Bewertungssystem; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Effectiveness; Effektivität; Wirkungsgrad; Lehrerbesoldung; Lehrervergütung; Inferential statistics; Schließende Statistik
Abstract	Recent policy suggestions from the European Community underlined the importance of "efficiency" and "equity" in the provision of education while, at the same time, the European countries are required to provide their educational services by minimizing the amount of public money devoted to them. In this article, an empirical study compares the spending efficiency on education in 20 European countries during the period 2006-2009. OECD-PISA test scores are used as output, while the "expenditure per student" is used as input. The efficiency scores are calculated via a bootstrap Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). In a second stage, the efficiency scores are regressed against a set of context variables which represent the different socio-economic settings (e.g. GDP per capita, unemployment rate, etc.) as well as some important "structural" characteristics of the educational systems. Teachers' salaries and Internet use (as a proxy for technological "literacy") play a positive role in affecting educational performance, while GDPpc is negatively related to efficiency. Lastly, Malmquist indexes are calculated to measure the change in efficiency in the period 2006-2009. The results showed that the average efficiency remained basically stable in the period. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10