Performance Indicators for Public Spending Efficiency in Primary and Secondary Education

Douglas Sutherland (), Robert Price, Isabelle Joumard () and Chantal Nicq

No 546, OECD Economics Department Working Papers from OECD Publishing

Abstract: 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...

Keywords: education; public spending; efficiency; nonparametric methods; data envelopment analysis; stochastic frontier analysis; dépenses publiques; éducation; efficacité; méthodes non paramétriques; analyse par enveloppement des données; analyse de frontière stochastique (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 C21 D24 H41 H52 I21 I22 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2007-02-27
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