Estimating the future local public school expenditures in Japan - the impacts of scale diseconomies and the change in faculty age structure -

Nobuo Akai () and Miki Suhara ()
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Nobuo Akai: Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University
Miki Suhara: Strategic Planning Office, Institute of Academic Initiatives, Osaka University

No 14-25, Discussion Papers in Economics and Business from Osaka University, Graduate School of Economics

Abstract: Decrease in the future number of students due to the low birth rate could affect public educational expenditures in Japan? Is there any regional difference? This paper simulates the future amount of local public primary, junior high, and high school expenditures in each Japanese prefecture. More specifically, we focus on faculty costs which consist of quite a large share of school expenditures. We examine the effect of economies of scale through the change in class/school size, and the impact of the shift in the faculty age distribution on the future faculty costs per student. We also investigate regional disparities concerning the future fiscal burden.

Keywords: the Industrial Revolution; local educational expenditure, faculty costs, scale diseconomies, regional disparity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H52 H72 I22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2014-06
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