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Booms, Bernard H.; Hu, Teh-Wei – American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 1973
Attempts to explore the fiscal relationships underlying the provision of elementary and secondary public education by introducing a simultaneous equation model. The model is essentially a demand and supply equation system for public expenditures on education. It represents a preliminary attempt at providing predictive insight and understanding…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Educational Demand, Educational Economics, Educational Supply
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Cheng, Yin Cheong; Ng, Kwok Hung; Mok, Magdalena Mo Ching – International Journal of Educational Management, 2002
Proposes a framework for analyzing education policy from an economic perspective. The framework takes into account educational supply and demand, structure of the education system, economic effects, and their interrelations. Discusses key economic issues in the analysis of education policy. (EV)
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Economic Impact, Educational Demand, Educational Economics
Dresch, Stephen P. – AAUP Bulletin, 1975
Pointing out that "trend-demographic" enrollment projections ignore important economic considerations (supply and demand), the author uses a model of educational adaptation, which focuses on the educational characteristics of the active adult population and the wage of educated relative to uneducated labor, to make projections that are compared…
Descriptors: Demography, Educational Demand, Educational Economics, Educational Supply
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Koshal, Rajindar K.; And Others – Education Economics, 1994
Builds and estimates a model that explains educational supply and demand behavior at PhD-granting institutions in the United States. The statistical analysis based on 1988-89 data suggests that student quantity, educational costs, average SAT score, class size, percentage of faculty with a PhD, graduation rate, ranking, and existence of a medical…
Descriptors: Class Size, Costs, Doctoral Programs, Educational Demand
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Nicholls, Miles G. – Higher Education, 1984
The demand for higher education in Australia is examined, and several hypotheses concerning the estimated effect of youth unemployment and the traditional human capital variables of the opportunity cost of education and expected future returns are evaluated using a previously developed demand model. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Educational Benefits, Educational Demand, Educational Economics, Enrollment Influences
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Hickrod, G. Alan – Review of Educational Research, 1971
Descriptors: Cross Sectional Studies, Educational Demand, Educational Economics, Educational Finance
Carr, Ray A.; Hayward, Gerald C. – Educ Urban Soc, 1970
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Demand, Educational Economics, Educational Finance
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Eckstein, Zvi; And Others – Economics of Education Review, 1988
Analyzes an Israeli university's problem in optimizing the quality and quantity of electrical engineers in response to fluctuating enrollment. An equilibrium model considers the effect of students' occupation choice and the university's decision on the current and future demand and supply of engineers, in order to predict the equilibrium number of…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Education Work Relationship, Educational Demand, Educational Economics
Lamoureux, Marvin E. – 1977
Because threshold pricing's scope for course price development had a good potential for application to the marketing of services by nonprofit organizations, this study's purpose was to determine the existence and applicability of course price thresholds or ranges to the decisionmaking framework of adult educators, with special reference to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Consumer Economics, Courses, Educational Administration
Shires, Michael A. – 1995
This study examines California's prospects for meeting the 1960 Master Plan goal of providing access to public undergraduate education to every Californian who could benefit from it in the context of the state's future demographic and fiscal environment. The study uses a dynamic simulation model to estimate the target level of education envisioned…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational Demand, Educational Economics, Educational Objectives
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Weiler, William C. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1984
Issues in the application of enrollment demand analysis to institutions' pricing policy are discussed, including price change impact on enrollment, the role of enrollment demand models on long-range financial and personnel planning, use of tuition and financial aid policy in optimizing policymakers' enrollment objectives, and the redistribution…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, College Planning, Decision Making, Educational Demand
Reece, William S. – 1978
Construction of a theoretical measure of educational output is attempted in this paper. The effort begins by specifying the purpose for which this measure is intended: centralized allocation, according to the equimarginal principle, of limited resources to alternative units producing education. It then specifies a simple and narrow goal that…
Descriptors: Centralization, Consumer Economics, Educational Benefits, Educational Demand
Radner, Roy; And Others – 1975
At a time when planning becomes more and more essential for American colleges and universities, precise and accurate information about them becomes critical. This document reports on some sophisticated statistical measurements of certain aspects of the supply and demand for students, places for them to attend college, and faculty members to teach…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, College Environment, Educational Demand, Educational Economics
Adkins, Douglas L. – 1975
This document studies the changes in the total number of holders of bachelor's and more advance degrees from 1930 to 1971 and provides detailed annual estimates of degree holders in 44 fields. Considered are four possible models that might explain the steady growth in the number of degrees awarded and the changes that occurred in their…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Age, Attitude Change, Credentials
Clotfelter, Charles T.; And Others – 1991
This book examines three issues that will have a significant influences on all institutions of higher education in the United States: (1) the growth and composition of undergraduate enrollments; (2) the supply of faculty in the academic labor market; and (3) the skyrocketing cost of operating colleges and universities. Part 1 focuses on the demand…
Descriptors: Careers, College Administration, Demography, Doctoral Degrees
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