School cost functions: A meta-regression analysis

Economics of Education Review

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 688-696

  Colegrave, Andrew D ^a   Giles, Margaret J ^b  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Silver Chain   (Australia)

Author keywords

Costs; Economies of scale; Efficiency; Expenditures

Indexed keywords

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMETRICS; EDUCATION; EXPENDITURE; META-ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 55949093484     PISSN: 02727757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2007.05.006     Document Type: Article

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