＜個人論文＞教育支出の共時的・通時的比較における問題

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The level of educational expenditures has been a big concern of the people of education, such as administrators, teachers, and the researchers of the educational policy. Moreover, the recent controversies between Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and Ministry of Finance on the public spending of education are widely known in the context of the financial reform. However, the understandings of the basic questions " How do we measure the level of spending ? ", " Does Japanese government underspend in education ? " and " Do today’s students receive surpassed educational resources ? " are not advanced.// This paper examines the problem on the cross-sectional and time-series comparison of educational expenditures and shows that the existent indices of educational expenditures such as expenditure-GDP ratio and nominal expenditure per capita are poor measures of the real resource input and the effort. We consider some alternative indices of the level of educational expenditures and give an analytical comparison.
2009-03-25