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Kurniawati, Sari; Sumaryana, Asep; Kristiadi, J.B.; Bekti, Herijanto – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2018
This study aims to identify the influence of the implementation of the Specific Purpose Grant (SPG) policy in achieving the national priorities in Banten Province. This study was conducted on the basis of a descriptive qualitative design by using interviews and observations for data collection. Findings indicate that the implementation of the SPG…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Finance, Grants, Expenditures
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Coupet, Jason – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2013
While several studies have examined the impact of expenditures on graduation rates in higher education institutions, historically Black colleges and universities have strong government dependencies that suggest that these links might be different than for other universities. This paper investigates these links by estimating the production function…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Educational Finance, Expenditures, Graduation Rate
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Romano, Richard M. – Community College Review, 2012
This study reviews the historical trend of college revenues and expenditures from a national perspective using primarily data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) as reported by the Delta Project for the years 1999-2009. Looking at trends related to state and local appropriations, college costs and prices, output, and…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Tuition, Budgets, Educational Policy
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Ziswiler, Korrin M.; De Luca, Barbara; Stedrak, Luke J. – Educational Considerations, 2013
Although there exists a large body of research concerning the relationship between expenditure and student achievement, a lack of research exists analyzing this relationship as it pertains specifically to students with disabilities. Given the increasing fiscal and academic pressures districts face to allocate resources efficiently, the purpose of…
Descriptors: Expenditures, Federal Programs, Educational Indicators, Special Needs Students
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Ingle, William Kyle; Johnson, Paul Andrew; Givens, Matt Ryan; Rampelt, Jerry – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2013
Using logistic regression, this study sought to understand the relationship between district characteristics, district finances, levy characteristics, and campaign expenditures with new operating levy outcomes. We found that employee benefits as a percentage of the district's budget were negatively associated with levy outcomes, while salaries…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Evidence, Stakeholders, Expenditures
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Webber, Douglas A. – Economics of Education Review, 2012
Using detailed individual-level data from public universities in the state of Ohio, I estimate the effect of various institutional expenditures on the probability of graduating from college. Using a competing risks regression framework, I find differential impacts of expenditure categories across student characteristics. I estimate that student…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Educational Finance, Measurement, Probability
Van Beek, Michael – Mackinac Center for Public Policy, 2011
In the passionate debates over providing equal educational opportunity for all children, it's frequently argued that large financial inequities create challenges for many public schools, particularly those in lower-income urban areas. This study compares the revenues and operating expenditures of Michigan's urban, suburban, town and rural school…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Public Schools, Expenditures, Municipalities
Bennett, Daniel L.; Lucchesi, Adam R.; Vedder, Richard K. – Center for College Affordability and Productivity (NJ1), 2010
During the 2008-2009 academic year, there were nearly 1.8 million students enrolled at more than 2,800 for-profit institutions of higher learning in the United States. Students in for-profit colleges and universities accounted for over 9% of all students enrolled in postsecondary education. The numbers have continued to grow, and today (2010) the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Opportunities, Schools, Economics
Gonand, Frederic – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2007
This paper assesses the impact on economic growth of increased efficiency of public spending in primary and lower-secondary education. Higher efficiency in public spending in schools can bolster growth through two main channels. On the one hand, it can allow a transfer of labour from the public sector to the business sector at unchanged…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Educational Finance, Foreign Countries, Public Sector
Cleckner, John – 1971
The author reviews five cost-effectiveness basic models including log-log correlational, general utility theory, simultaneous equations, nonlinear theoretical, and feedback. Several suggestions are made to improve the models and increase the domain of problems that can be considered by the models. In the second part of the paper, the author…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Educational Finance, Elementary Education
Molgat, Paul; MacMillan, J. A. – 1972
The study determined the: (1) relationship between dropout rates and the quality of education, teachers' qualifications, diversity of curriculum and extra-curricular activities, average town income, percentage of the high school population of American Indian or Metis descent, and school size; (2) effects of educational expenditures on business…
Descriptors: Dropout Rate, Economic Development, Educational Finance, Educational Quality
Kubursi, A. A. – 1994
This study gauges the secondary impacts of Ontario, Canada's higher education system, in an attempt to define the boundary of production that encloses the economic activities involved in sustaining the demands put on the system by normal university activities. The accounting framework, upon which the impact model is based, is Statistics Canada…
Descriptors: Colleges, Economic Impact, Educational Assessment, Educational Economics
Wisconsin Univ., Madison. Dept. of Agricultural Journalism. – 1982
Intended to provide guidance to Extension specialists and agents faced with requests for impact analyses from communities experiencing economic development, this report also summarizes issues that need to be considered. The first section, on private sector impacts, addresses questions on predicting changes in production, employment, and housing…
Descriptors: Budgets, Community Change, Cost Estimates, Delivery Systems
Powell, Ray M. – 1980
Budgetary control procedures for not-for-profit institutions are presented in this compilation of budgetary materials and ideas gathered at the Program for Institutional Administrators at the University of Notre Dame. Budgetary reporting and control are suggested as the most effective tools for coordinating and controlling the acquisition and use…
Descriptors: Accounting, Administration, Administrator Guides, Budgeting
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Fowler, William J., Jr., Ed. – National Center for Education Statistics, 1999
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) commissioned the papers in this publication to address advances in measuring education inflation and adjusting for it, as well as to examine the emergence of a new focus on school spending, rather than school district spending, as well as new, private sources of funding for public education, and…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Cost Indexes, Investment, Productivity