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Public spending efficiency in compulsory education

In: Handbook on Public Sector Efficiency

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  • Douglas Sutherland

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Raising educational attainment strengthens labour market skills, boosting productivity and economic well-being in the longer term. However, there are competing pressures on public finances, which are likely to come under increasing pressure with population ageing. Education accounts for a sizeable proportion of government spending. As such, improving spending efficiency is an important objective. There are a number of methodological complexities in measuring public spending efficiency, not least the sensitivity of non-parametric measures of efficiency to outliers and the comparability of measurement across educational institutions and countries. However, new more-detailed data sources and statistical measures permit more robust benchmarking that can help highlight where efficiency gains are possible.

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  • Douglas Sutherland, 2023. "Public spending efficiency in compulsory education," Chapters, in: António Afonso & João Tovar Jalles & Ana Venâncio (ed.), Handbook on Public Sector Efficiency, chapter 11, pages 251-273, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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