The analysis of the determinants of education expenditures in Thailand
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Danuvas Sagarik (2012). The analysis of the determinants of education expenditures in Thailand. Retrieved from: http://repository.nida.ac.th/handle/662723737/860.
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The analysis of the determinants of education expenditures in Thailand
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The aim of this integrative study builds on the established theories of public policy analysis, economics, and public finance to empirically investigate and analyze the determinants of public expenditure on education in Thailand. For the purpose of this study, it is posited that education expenditure are determined by multidimensional determinants. A number of theories are therefore incorporated regarding economic-demographic, political, institutional, decision-making theories as well as the concept of education. This study recognizes and quantifies educational expenditures by both types and stages of education according to the allocation of government budget and the education system in Thailand. The results reveal that the education policy in Thailand is mainly determined by last year’s expenditure. Industrialization also increases the total education expenditure. This is what the incrementalism theory and the Wager’s Law postulate respectively. Besides, unemployment has an inverse impact on several educational expenditures. These results imply that the Thai government mainly takes into account only certain factors and neglect to incorporate the importance of other factors, such as demographic and educational indicators, when allocating education expenditures. Nevertheless, the results from the estimations of the provincial distribution are rather ambiguous and it is unclear to conclude that the distribution of educational expenditure in Thailand across provinces is able to improve the equality.
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