An analysis of education expenditures in Turkey by income groups
Joint Authors
Acar, Elif Öznur
Cilasun, Seyit Mümin
Günalp, Burak
Source
Economic Research Forum : Working Paper Series
Issue
Vol. 2016, Issue 979-1073 (31 Dec. 2016), pp.1-28, 28 p.
Publisher
Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries Iran and Turkey
Publication Date
2016-12-31
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
28
Main Subjects
Topics
Abstract EN
Using Turkish Household Budget Surveys from 2003, 2007 and 2012, this paper investigates the determinants of household education expenditures within an Engel curve framework.
In particular, we estimate Tobit regressions of real educational expenditures by income groups using a number of household characteristics (i.e.
rural residence, employment status, age, educational attainment of the household head, household size, share of female students and primary school students in the household, and total number of students in the household) to examine if and to what extent the determinants of educational expenditures differ by income groups; income elasticities of educational spending evolves over time; and children from middle-class and poor families can benefit enough from educational opportunities.
The estimated expenditure elasticities have lower values for the top- and the bottom-income quartiles while they have larger values for the middle-income quartiles.
The results also show that for all income groups the expenditure elasticity of education increases over time, indicating that Turkish households allocates greater share of their budgets to education expenditures.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Acar, Elif Öznur& Cilasun, Seyit Mümin& Günalp, Burak. 2016. An analysis of education expenditures in Turkey by income groups. Economic Research Forum : Working Paper Series،Vol. 2016, no. 979-1073, pp.1-28.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Acar, Elif Öznur…[et al.]. An analysis of education expenditures in Turkey by income groups. Economic Research Forum : Working Paper Series No. 979-1073 (Dec. 2016), pp.1-28.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-679517
American Medical Association (AMA)
Acar, Elif Öznur& Cilasun, Seyit Mümin& Günalp, Burak. An analysis of education expenditures in Turkey by income groups. Economic Research Forum : Working Paper Series. 2016. Vol. 2016, no. 979-1073, pp.1-28.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-679517
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes appendices : p. 20-28
Record ID
BIM-679517