Public spending efficiency in compulsory education

Douglas Sutherland

Chapter 11 in Handbook on Public Sector Efficiency, 2023, pp 251-273 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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