School attendance and district and school size

Jones, John T.; Toma, Eugenia Froedge; Zimmer, Ron

doi:10.1016/j.econedurev.2006.09.005

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“…Driscoll et al (2003) in a study of US schools suggest that there are decreasing returns for schools located in large districts. This is confirmed by Jones et al (2008) who also find decreasing returns to class and school size for schools in the USA. Sengupta & Sfeir (1986), however, find that the average school in California is operating in an area of increasing returns to scale; greater returns to scale are experienced by those schools on the frontier than those deviating from it.…”

Section: Efficiency: Conceptual Framework and Estimationsupporting

confidence: 73%

“…The former has the advantage that it is available for all levels of schooling and all years, but its disadvantage is that it is more a measure of input than output. There is, however, a high degree of correlation between student and graduate numbers in the context of schools (since the drop-out rate is relatively low), and hence student numbers (or variables relating to enrolment) have been used to represent teaching outputs in a number of empirical studies (Lovell et al 1994;Ouillette and Vierstraete 2006;Jones et al 2008).…”

Section: Data and Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The efficiency of public schools: the case of Kuwait

Burney

Johnes

Alenezi

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Education Economics

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This paper investigates the technical, allocative and economic efficiency of public schools in Kuwait over four levels of schooling (kindergartens, primary, intermediate and secondary) and two periods (1999/00 and 2004/05) using data envelopment analysis (DEA). Mean pure technical efficiency varies between 0.695 and 0.852 across all levels of education; the majority of schools at kindergarten, primary and intermediate levels are operating at a point where returns to scale are increasing; and there are considerable cost efficiencies to be gained. In a second stage analysis of the determinants of efficiency, teacher salary and the proportion of teaching staff who are Kuwaiti are highly significant in explaining school efficiency at all levels. The former has a positive effect and the latter a negative effect. Allgirls schools have significantly higher efficiency than all-boys schools. There is limited evidence that geographical location affects efficiency, and this may be a consequence of differences between regions in terms of affluence or density of population.

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Section: Efficiency: Conceptual Framework and Estimationsupporting

confidence: 73%

Section: Data and Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The efficiency of public schools: the case of Kuwait

Burney

Johnes

Alenezi

et al. 2013

Education Economics

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“…In many African countries, research has revealed shortages in the number of laboratories in schools. A study by Jones (1990) found that 45 % of the schools surveyed in selected African countries indicated insufficient laboratories. Alebiosu, 2000 andOnipede, 2003 reported that many schools in Nigeria do not have laboratory with minimum standard facilities.…”

Section: International Letters Of Social and Humanistic Sciences Volmentioning

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The State of Science and Technology Infrastructure in Secondary Schools in Nigeria

Emma

2013

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Science and technology (S&T) education is crucial to the achievement of socio-economic development of any society and also a critical element in the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Standard laboratories and equipments as well as reagents are S&T infrastructures essential for providing qualitative education for producing national technological manpower. This study evaluates the condition of S&T infrastructures in the Nigerian secondary schools. The study utilises primary data collected from public and private secondary schools across the six geo-political zones in the country. Findings show that there are inadequate teachers, laboratories and necessary equipment for teaching S&T related subjects in most of the secondary schools in Nigeria. Also, electricity supply from the national grid to secondary schools is poor because only 30% of them have light at most 4hours a day. The study therefore recommends the provision of adequate funds and electricity generators for these institutions to enhance the teaching and overall development of S&T education in Nigeria. In addition, adequate and qualified personnel (teachers and laboratory technicians) should be provided while good maintenance culture and improved security of laboratories and equipment in secondary schools should be imbibed by all secondary schools in the country.

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“…Thus, small schools often have more extracurricular activities than large schools despite the fact that large schools may be more successful in sports competitions. Students may have more attendance problems in large schools and the individual student may be subject to less adult supervision, Jones et al (2008).…”

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Long-term effects of school size on students’ outcomes

Humlum

Smith

2015

Economics of Education Review

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We estimate the e¤ect of school size on students'long-term outcomes such as high school completion, being out of the labor market, and earnings at the age of 30. We use rich register data on the entire population of Danish children attending grade 9 in the period 1986-2004. This allows us to compare the results of di¤erent …xed e¤ect and instrumental variables estimators. We use the natural population variation in the residential catchment areas and school openings and closures to instrument for actual school size. We …nd a robust positive but numerically fairly small relationship between school size and alternative measures of long-term success in the educational system and the labor market. The positive impact of school size seems mainly to be driven by boys and students from families with a low educational level.JEL classi…cation: I21; I28; J24

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School attendance and district and school size

Cited by 20 publications

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The efficiency of public schools: the case of Kuwait

The efficiency of public schools: the case of Kuwait

The State of Science and Technology Infrastructure in Secondary Schools in Nigeria

Long-term effects of school size on students’ outcomes

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