Private Education Expenditure Research Articles

Private education expenditure in a ‘free education’ country: The case of Greece

This paper uses data from the 1988 Family Expenditure Survey to estimate and analyze the private expenditure on education in Greece. Such expenditure amounts to 111,624 million drs per year or 2.1% of total household expenditure. The aggregate expenditure of households is roughly half of what the state is spending on education. The dominant type of expenditure is for foreign languages and private crammer schools ( frontisteria). There are sharp differences in private expenditure on education depending on the location of the household (spending in Athens is two-and-a-half times that of small towns and villages), the household's total expenditure, as well as the occupation and educational level of the head of the household. The findings are discussed in the context of the equity and efficiency of current education provision and financing policies.

The Privatization of Education in EuropeFinancial Support for Students: Grants, Loans, or Graduate Tax?. Maureen WoodhallTowards a New Education System: The Victory of the New Right?. Clyde ChittyGovernmental Strategies and Innovation in Higher Education. Frans A. van VughtPrivate Schools in Ten Countries: Policy and Practice. Geoffrey WalfordStudent Loans: The Next Steps. Nicholas BarrStrategies for Higher Education: The Alternative White Paper.

Previous articleNext article No AccessEssay ReviewThe Privatization of Education in Europe Financial Support for Students: Grants, Loans, or Graduate Tax?. Maureen Woodhall Towards a New Education System: The Victory of the New Right?. Clyde Chitty Governmental Strategies and Innovation in Higher Education. Frans A. van Vught Private Schools in Ten Countries: Policy and Practice. Geoffrey Walford Student Loans: The Next Steps. Nicholas Barr Strategies for Higher Education: The Alternative White Paper. John Barnes , Nicholas Barr The Economics of the Welfare State. Nicholas Barr Financing Higher Education: Current Patterns. Gareth Williams George PsacharopoulosGeorge Psacharopoulos Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Comparative Education Review Volume 36, Number 1Feb., 1992Special Issue on Education in a Changing Europe Sponsored by the Comparative and International Education Society Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/447085 Views: 15Total views on this site Citations: 5Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1992 The Comparative and International Education SocietyPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Lijing Yang The Disappearing Role of Education Finance Policies in Higher Education Access: Panel Data Analysis of 21 Asia-Pacific Countries in a Global Setting, (Aug 2011): 77–104.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1500-4_4Ronald G. Sultana Educational development in post-colonial malta: Challenges for a Mediterranean micro-state, International Journal of Educational Development 17, no.33 (Jul 1997): 335–351.https://doi.org/10.1016/S0738-0593(96)00078-8Costas Kanellopoulos, George Psacharopoulos Private education expenditure in a ‘free education’ country: The case of Greece, International Journal of Educational Development 17, no.11 (Jan 1997): 73–81.https://doi.org/10.1016/S0738-0593(96)00030-2Chu Chin-yi Cyrus, Yeh Chia-hsing Taiwan's Private Education, Chinese Education & Society 28, no.44 (Dec 2010): 66–96.https://doi.org/10.2753/CED1061-1932280466Barbara Heyns Markets for Organizational Reform, (Jan 1995): 57–80.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1094-3_4

Educational slowdown and public intervention in 19th-century England: A study in the economics of bureaucracy

This paper1 presents analysis and statistical measurement of the effect of government intervention upon nineteenth-century British educational growth. By net effect is meant the stimulus to the public system minus the damage to private schools. The first part applies hypotheses from the modern economics of bureaucracy for an explanation of the strategy of the growing Victorian Education Department. It documents the way in which its discretionary behaviour led to the crowding out of private schools. The second part presents a simple economic model that illustrates the full potentialities of the crowding out effect, and the consequences for total (public and private) educational expenditure. The third and final section estimates the share of primary education in the national income 12 years after the major intervention: the Forster Act of 1870. It then compares this proportion with estimates for 1833 and 1858 and with estimates for other European countries and America. The total evidence is finally brought to bear on two questions: first, how did Britain's education effort in the industrial revolution year of 1833 compare with other European countries at similar income levels? Second, did education grow slower or faster in the remaining part of the century after the 1870 Act?2