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BenDavid-Hadar, Iris; Ziderman, Adrian – Education Economics, 2011
This paper sets out a new budget allocation formula for schools, designed to achieve a more equitable distribution of educational achievement. In addition to needs-based elements, the suggested composite allocation formula includes an improvement component, whereby schools receive budgetary allocations based on a new incentive measure developed in…
Descriptors: Funding Formulas, Budgeting, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries
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Benos, Nikos – Education Economics, 2010
The present paper studies the general equilibrium implications of two types of education policy in an overlapping generations model. We examine education transfers, which augment inherited private education spending, and public investment on economy-wide human capital, which provides externalities to individual human capital accumulation. The…
Descriptors: Private Education, Human Capital, Tax Rates, Public Policy
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Springer, Matthew G.; Liu, Keke; Guthrie, James W. – Education Economics, 2009
While there is a wealth of research on school finance equity and adequacy, and school finance theory clearly documents differences between the two concepts, no study has examined whether the reforms engendered by each approach actually differ in terms of resource distribution. The present study examines the issues using district-level data on…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Equity (Finance), Equal Education, Student Needs
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Chatterji, Monojit; Seaman, Paul – Education Economics, 2007
A considerable sum of money is allocated to UK universities on the basis of Research Assessment Exercise performance. In this paper we analyse the impact of the two main funding models on the intra-territorial and intra-regional allocation of funds. We also examine the effect of the present system of territorial safety nets and discuss the impact…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Research, Financial Support
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Callan, Tim; Smeeding, Tim; Tsakloglou, Panos – Education Economics, 2008
Direct provision of public services can alter the balance of resources across income groups. We focus on the issues arising when taking account of the impact of publicly provided education services across the income distribution. We combine OECD information on spending per student in particular levels of the education system with micro data from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Resource Allocation, Public Education, Comparative Education
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West, Anne; And Others – Education Economics, 1995
Recently, monies allocated to the additional educational needs (AEN) component of (Britain's) standard spending assessment (SSA) have decreased markedly. The strategy for determining the AEN weighting (to aid socially deprived and ethnic-minority students) is undermined by central-government spending constraints. Weighting should be determined by…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Equity (Finance), Elementary Secondary Education, Finance Reform