Performance Indicators for Public Spending Efficiency in Primary and Secondary Education

Douglas Sutherland ; Robert Price ; Isabelle Joumard ; Chantal Nicq

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

关键词: stochastic frontier analysis;    public spending;    nonparametric methods;    data envelopment analysis;    education;    efficiency;   

DOI  :  https://doi.org/10.1787/285006168603

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: OECD iLibrary

【 摘 要 】

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...