The effects of the socioeconomic, governance and political determinants of the local educational outcomes of provincial administrative organizations
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Morakot Muthuta (2015). The effects of the socioeconomic, governance and political determinants of the local educational outcomes of provincial administrative organizations. Retrieved from: http://repository.nida.ac.th/handle/662723737/4407.
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The effects of the socioeconomic, governance and political determinants of the local educational outcomes of provincial administrative organizations
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In the previous studies on the determinants of public expenditure and public
policy outcomes, only socioeconomic and political factors are taken into account.
This study, however, has shed new light on how governance factors affect local public
expenditure and policy outcomes especially on local education. Provincial
Administrative Organizations (PAO) is one of the local administrative organization
types which is assigned to administrate education institutes or support education
systems or to perform both functions. Therefore, it could play an important role in
Thailand’s education provision. The underlying objectives of this study are to identify
the main factors that affect PAO’s public expenditure on primary education, and to
assess how PAO’s expenditure on education as well as socio-economic and
governance variables affect PAO’s education outcomes and how PAO could help
improve provincial education outcomes. Secondary data were collected and panel data
analysis was used to assess the effects of the antecedents on PAO’s expenditure on
education and the determinants of PAO’s education outcomes. The results reveal that
PAO’s education expenditure is mainly negatively determined by the previous year’s
GPP per capita. The previous year’s local revenue also increases the total education
expenditure. Besides, social variables, number of schools and school age population
have high impact on PAO’s educational expenditure while political variables; the
poverty ratio and political continuity have a negative effect on PAO’s education
expenditure and governance factors; PAO with governance qualification brings about higher levels of education expenditure. However, the corruption rate has a positive
impact on education expenditure which indicates that it is needed to find solutions for
solving PAO’s corruption in education. For determinants of PAO’s education
outcomes; accessibility via the enrolment ratio; equality via literacy rate and average
years of adult schooling; achievement via Grade 6’s average O-Net scores and Grade
6’s average GPA, all imply that both education expenditure and socio-economic
status determine education outcomes. However, for the PAO’s case, education
expenditure has a more significant effect on overall education outcomes than the other
factors. Moreover, governance factors also have an important role in improving
provincial and PAO’s education outcomes. Therefore, PAOs should be encouraged to
take part in national education development as it could help improve inequality as
well as achievement in education with its redistribution policy. Finally, from the
results, the governance factor plays an important role in reducing educational
disparity by increasing efficiency and effectiveness of PAOs’ educational spending
and PAO’s educational management process.
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Dissertation (D.P.A.)--National Institute of Development Administration, 2015