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

Educational Sciences

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.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-679517

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