Cost Analysis for Educational Policymaking: A Review of Cost Studies in Education in Developimg Countries. BRIDGES Research Report Series, No. 3.

Autor/in	Tsang, Mun C.
Institution	Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA. Inst. for International Development.; Michigan State Univ., East Lansing. Coll. of Education.
Titel	Cost Analysis for Educational Policymaking: A Review of Cost Studies in Education in Developimg Countries. BRIDGES Research Report Series, No. 3.
Quelle	(1988), (50 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Cost Effectiveness; Cost Estimates; Developing Nations; Economic Development; Educational Economics; Educational Finance; Elementary Education; Expenditures; Foreign Countries; Human Capital; Public Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse; Kosten-Nutzen-Denken; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Wirtschaftsentwicklung; Bildungsökonomie; Bildungsfonds; Elementarunterricht; Ausgaben; Ausland; Humankapital; Öffentliche Erziehung
Abstract	The cost of education to a country consists of total public education expenditures, total direct private cost, and total indirect private cost measured in terms of foregone earnings; improperly estimated educational costs focus only on government education expenditures. Considerable progress has been made in conceptual understanding of educational costs in the past 2 decades. Factors that determine the total amount of resources devoted to education and factors that determine expenditures within education influence educational costs. With current tight budgetary constraints and unmet demand for education in developing countries, the need to control costs and to improve efficiency is very pressing. An awareness of the disparities between educational costs in different localities is necessary for decisionmakers to design proper policies applicable to diverse settings. Applications of cost-benefit and cost-effective analyses address directly the concern regarding inefficiency in education; however, analyses of education in developing countries are often plagued by unreliable and incomplete data. For educational policymaking and planning, data on educational costs, quantities, prices, and norms, as well as socioeconomic data, are required. The obvious cost of managing a database of educational costs is likely to be more than compensated for by the gain of better-informed decisions. (132 references) (KM)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01