School expenditure leakage and efficiency : the case of Thai compulsory education
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Jiradate Thasayaphan (2010). School expenditure leakage and efficiency : the case of Thai compulsory education. Retrieved from: http://repository.nida.ac.th/handle/662723737/601.
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School expenditure leakage and efficiency : the case of Thai compulsory education
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The objectives of this study are to compute the leakage of public expenditure,
to diagnose weak institutional capacity, and to measure the efficiency and factors that
affect the performance of the schools in Thai compulsory education. The frame of
reference of the study is the school-based management framework, and the models
used to compute efficiency are Data Envelopment Analysis, Stochastic Frontier
Analysis, and Bayesian Stochastic Frontier Analysis model.
The samples were randomly drawn from small-sized, lower secondary schools
from Nakhonratchasema and Amnatcharoen provinces in Thailand. Two-stage
stratified cluster sampling was used as a sampling technique. The total number of
samples included in the study is 109; however, only 70 schools were included in the
econometric analysis.
The results of the study indicate that there exist leakages of public
expenditures, absence rate, and budget allocation delays in the sampled schools. The
average efficiency of schools was relatively high. However, leakage and weak
institutional capacity reduced the school efficiency, suggesting the role of government
intervention. In addition, the Bayesian Stochastic Frontier Analysis proved to be
superior for describing the characteristics of the best performing schools.
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Thesis (Ph.D. (Economics))--National Institute of Development Administration, 2010