Front Matter Page
Fiscal Affairs Department
Authorized for distribution by Gerd Schwartz
Contents
I. Introduction and Main Conclusions
II. Education and Health Spending, Outcomes, and Economic Growth: Background and Literature Review
III. Spending and Outcomes in Education and Health: Empirical Analysis
A. Trends in Education and Health Spending and Outcomes
B. The Relative Efficiency of Education and Health Spending
C. Achieving Better Outcomes with Lower Spending
IV. Concluding Remarks
Tables
1. Trends in Health and Education Spending, 1995–2003
2. Trends in Health and Education Outcomes
3. Efficiency of Education and Health Spending in G7 Countries Relative to the OECD
4. Spending and System Efficiency in Education and Health
Figures
1. Total Education Spending per Student by Level of Education, 2003
2. Total Health Spending per Capita by Source, 1998–2001
3. Efficiency and the Best-Practice Frontier
4. Secondary Education Spending and Average PISA Mathematics Scores
5. Secondary Education Spending and the Distribution of PISA Mathematics Scores
6. Secondary Education Spending and Upper Secondary Graduation
7. Tertiary Education Spending and Tertiary Graduation Rates
8. Public Health Spending and HALE
9. Public Health Spending and Standardized Death Rates
10. Public Health Spending and Infant Mortality
11. Public Health Spending and Child Mortality
12. Public Health Spending and Maternal Mortality
13. Teacher Salary in Secondary Education and GDP
Appendixes
I. Data, Data Envelopment Analysis, and Second-Stage Analysis
II. Tables and Figures
Appendix Tables
5. Links Between Economic Growth and Spending and Outcomes in Education and Health
6. Education and Health Spending
7. Outcome Indicators in Education
8. Outcome Indicators in Health
9. Intermediate Output Indicators in Education
10. Intermediate Output Indicators in Health
11. Correlations of Bias-Corrected Efficiency Scores and Associated Factors for Secondary and Tertiary Overall Education Spending
12. Correlations of Bias-Corrected Efficiency Scores and Associated Factors for Public Health Education
13. Regression Results for Overall Education Spending Efficiency Scores
14. Regression Results for Public Health Spending Efficiency Scores
References