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Performance Indicators for Public Spending Efficiency in Primary and Secondary Education

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Douglas Sutherland
Robert Price
Isabelle Joumard
Chantal Nicq ()

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This paper assesses the potential to raise public spending efficiency in the primary and secondary education sector. Resource availability per pupil has increased significantly over the past decade in a number of countries; often in attempting to exploit the link between educational attainment and growth. However, available evidence reveals only a weak correlation between increased resource availability and pupil performance. In order to draw cross-country comparisons...

Indicateurs de performance de l'efficacité des dépenses publiques d'éducation dans l'enseignement primaire et secondaire
Ce document évalue les possibilités d'accroître l'efficacité des dépenses publiques d'éducation dans l'enseignement primaire et secondaire. Les ressources disponibles par élève se sont accrues sensiblement au cours de la dernière décennie dans un certain nombre de pays, souvent dans l?espoir d'exploiter le lien entre niveau d'instruction et croissance. Pourtant les études disponibles ne révèlent qu'une faible corrélation entre la disponibilité croissante des ressources...

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Paper provided by OECD Economics Department in its series OECD Economics Department Working Papers with number 546.

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Keywords: education dépenses publiques éducation public spending efficiency efficacité nonparametric methods méthodes non paramétriques data envelopment analysis analyse par enveloppement des données stochastic frontier analysis analyse de frontière stochastique

Find related papers by JEL classification:
C14 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: General - - - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods
C21 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models
D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Capital and Total Factor Productivity; Capacity
H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
H52 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Education
I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
I22 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Educational Finance
I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy

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  1. Tanja Kirjavainen, 2007. "Efficiency of Finnish Upper Secondary Schools: An Application of Stochastic Frontier Analysis with Panel Data," VATT Discussion Papers 428, Government Institute for Economic Research (VATT). [Downloadable!]
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