EDUCATIONAL PRODUCTION IN INDEPENDENT SECONDARY SCHOOLS

In: Bulletin of economic research, Band 37, Heft 1, S. 27-38

Abstract

ABSTRACTThis article contributes to an established and growing literature in which a production function is estimated for educational institutions in order to investigate the relationship between school characteristics and performance.Existing studies in this area have generally met with only limited success. The present study, through its application of a statistical model to comprehensive data drawn from the UK private sector of education identifies a wide range of school characteristics which significantly influence performance.The article offers meaningful results and guidelines for further development of techniques in the investigation of a topic which is relevant to both producers and consumers of education.