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Quddus, Munir; Williams, Michael; Quazi, Rahim; Ojumu, Oluwagbemiga; Osho, Gbolahan – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2022
Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) plays an important role in the social and economic life of the local, state and national economy. This study presents estimates of the economic impacts of the University's contributions, both short-term and long-term, on the local (Waller County), regional (Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land Metropolitan…
Descriptors: Universities, School Community Relationship, Economic Impact, Models
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Vlk, Aleš; Fojt, Otakar; Stanzel, Jirí – Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 2020
The purpose of our contribution is to discuss shortcomings of purely descriptive quantitative evaluation of research policies -- based either on inputs (public investment, number of researchers), or outputs (publications, EU grants, number of patents). To give an example, we compare selected indicators across Visegrad countries in the period…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Research and Development, Input Output Analysis, Investment
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Moore, Kenneth; Coates, Hamish; Croucher, Gwilym – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
The paper contributes to the growing and often controversial study of higher education productivity measurement. The paper clarifies core productivity ideas, and considers alternative models for productivity assessment. Results from these models are explored using data from Australian higher education. Findings reveal implications for the…
Descriptors: Productivity, Higher Education, Measurement, Efficiency
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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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Vltavská, Kristýna; Fischer, Jakub – Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science, 2017
This paper deals with the regional input-output analysis and its application to evaluation of the macroeconomic impact of expenditures on higher education. Regional input-output tables represent newly developed tool which can be used for the assessment of the regional economic impact of the particular industry and its institutions. The regional…
Descriptors: Macroeconomics, Expenditures, Higher Education, Industry
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Titus, Marvin A.; Vamosiu, Adriana; McClure, Kevin R. – Research in Higher Education, 2017
The current study examines costs, measured by educational and general (E&G) spending, and cost efficiency at 252 public master's institutions in the United States over a nine-year (2004-2012) period. We use a multi-product quadratic cost function and results from a random-effects model with a first-order autoregressive (AR1) disturbance term…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Public Colleges, Institutional Characteristics, Efficiency
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Hermannsson, Kristinn; Lisenkova, Katerina; McGregor, Peter G.; Swales, J. Kim – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
This paper analyses the impact of London-based higher education institutions (HEIs) on the English economy. When we treat each of the HEIs as separate sectors in conventional input-output analysis, their expenditure impacts appear rather homogenous, with the apparent heterogeneity of their overall impacts being primarily driven by scale. However,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Financial Support, Budgets, Expenditures
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Zhang, Qiantao; Larkin, Charles; Lucey, Brian M. – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
While there has been a long history of modelling the economic impact of higher education institutions (HEIs), little research has been undertaken in the context of Ireland. This paper provides, for the first time, a disaggregated input-output table for Ireland's higher education sector. The picture painted overall is a higher education sector that…
Descriptors: Economic Impact, Higher Education, Evidence, Input Output Analysis
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Fieger, Peter; Villano, Renato; Cooksey, Ray – International Journal of Training Research, 2016
Budgetary constraints on the public purse have led Australian Federal and State governments to focus increasingly on the efficiency of public institutions, including Technical and Further Education (TAFE) institutes. In this study, we define efficiency as the relationship between financial and administrative inputs and educational outputs. We…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Efficiency, Adult Education, Technical Education
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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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Aristovnik, Aleksander – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2013
Purpose: The aim of the paper is to review some previous researches examining ICT efficiency and the impact of ICT on educational output/outcome as well as different conceptual and methodological issues related to performance measurement. Design/methodology/approach: This paper adopts a non-parametric methodology, i.e. data envelopment analysis…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Developed Nations, Efficiency, Input Output Analysis
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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
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