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Fiscal Affairs Department

Contents

  • Abstract

  • I. Introduction

  • II. Analytical Framework

    • A. Assessing Efficiency and Equality

    • B. Identifying Sources of Inefficiencies and Inequality

    • C. Designing an Effective Reform Strategy

  • III. Moldova’s Educational System and Recent Reforms

  • IV. Assessing Efficiency of the Education Sector

    • A. Total Spending Level and Composition

    • B. Wage Premiums in the Education Sector

    • C. Early Childhood Education

    • D. Primary and Secondary Education

    • E. University and Post-Secondary Vocational Education

  • V. Assessing Equity In Education

  • VI. Designing an Effective Reform Strategy

    • A. Early Childhood Education

    • B. Primary and Secondary Education

    • C. Tertiary and Post-Secondary Vocational Education

    • D. General Reforms to Improve Efficiency and Equity

  • VII. Conclusion

  • References

  • Tables

  • 1. Public Education Spending on Education

  • 2. Moldova: Ratio of Students Who Passed the BAC Exams

  • 3. Enrollment Rates by Family Income

  • 4. Enrollment Rates of Budgetary and Contractual Students in Vocational Colleges

  • 5. An Illustrative Reform Plan to Reduce Employment in General Education

  • 6. Illustrative Education Sector Reforms and Their Fiscal Impacts

  • Figures

  • 1. Public Education Spending and School Enrollment: 1990–2015

  • 2. Disparities in Access to Education and Test Scores by Socioeconomic Status

  • 3. Trends of School- and Working-Age Population: 1990–2050

  • 4. Moldova: Demographics, Enrollment and Student–Teacher Ratio

  • 5. Number of Teachers and Non-Teaching Staff in Primary and Secondary Education

  • 6. Public Spending on Education

  • 7. Composition of Public Education Spending

  • 8. Private Return to Education

  • 9. Wage Levels in the Education Sector

  • 10. Wage Premiums of the Educational Sector over the Private Sector

  • 11. Wage Premiums of the Educational Sector over the Private Sector – Men

  • 12. Enrollment and Spending in Early Childhood Education

  • 13. Student-Teacher Ratio in Early Childhood Education

  • 14. Public Spending and Educational Outcomes in General Education

  • 15. Moldova’s Efficiency in Primary and Secondary Education

  • 16. Student-Teacher Ratio, Class Size and Teaching Hours in General Education

  • 17. Government Non-Wage Current Expenditure in Education

  • 18. Moldova: Age Distributions of Teachers and the Working Population

  • 19. Government Financial Support in Post-Secondary Education

  • 20. Tertiary Education: Public Spending and Enrollment

  • 21. Qualification Mismatch in Moldova

  • 22. Disparities in Test Scores and Allocation of Schools Resources

  • Boxes

  • 1. Regression Analysis of Wage Premiums in Education

  • 2. Efficiency Frontier Analysis in Education

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Improving the Efficiency and Equity of Public Education Spending: The Case of Moldova
Author:
Hui Jin
,
La-Bhus Fah Jirasavetakul
, and
Baoping Shang