Costs and economies of scale in Turkey's postsecondary vocational schools |
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| Authors: | Halil Dundar Darrell R Lewis |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Educational Policy and Administration, University of Minnesota, 310H Wulling Hall, 55455 Minneapolis, MN, USA |
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| Abstract: | The study reported in this paper examines the institutional cost structures of the postsecondary vocational education system in Turkey. The study uses a single-output quadratic cost function to analyze 65 individual vocational schools located within the 28 existing universities. Appropriate controls for institutional quality, discretionary allocation of staffing resources, the degree of technical instruction in the cirriculum, and regional variation are also included. Both average and marginal costs for each school are estimated over relevant ranges of student enrollments for determing prospective degrees of economies of scale. The findings should help policy makers in Turkey determine which vocational schools can reap efficiencies by an expansion (or contraction) of their student enrollments. |
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