This paper presents evidence of the demand for education. The study uses the translog-LES (Linear Expenditure System) indirect utility function to analyze the demand within a multicommunity framework for annual U.S. expenditures for 1958-1982. Taste change has moved toward the consumption of education, and the consumer has suffered because of…

Before 1997, education was a way for young French men to avoid military service in the army. After the abolition of compulsory conscription in 1997, this incentive to stay on in education disappeared. We show that the decrease in the benefit of pursuing education for men was followed by a fall in their educational achievement relative to women and…

Shows that the generally high returns to high school graduation are not universal. For some specific occupations, completing high school is not economically justifiable. (BH)

Estimations of enrollment age and schooling duration for Tanzanian children revealed different patterns for boys and girls. Although girls have lower levels of education, they enroll earlier, either because of lower returns to preschool experience for girls or parental desire to prepare them for the marriage market as soon as possible. (SK)

This paper investigates the impact of parental education level, family income, scholastic ability, and expectations of earnings and employment on the demand for higher education in the Netherlands. A distance test found that parental educational level exerted indirect effects only. (Author/JOW)

The purpose of the paper is to develop a theoretical analysis of the demand for full-time education in which nonmonetary as well as monetary benefits enter explicitly. (Author)

Examines the quantitative dimensions, causes, and consequences of the "new depression" in the college job market, explaining the downturn as slackened demand due to changes in industrial structure and growth of supply, and finding that the fraction of young men choosing college fell in the seventies in response to the market. (Editor/JT)

A 2-equation model indicates that an increase in spending per student will attract students into the public school system. In turn, the response of the local government to this influx of students will be additional expenditures on education, but not such as to maintain the target level of spending per student. (Author)

A study investigated the impact of a negative income tax and a program of schooling subsidies on the demand for schooling of adult heads of families. Strong effects of the schooling subsidies were found, but net effects of the negative income tax on schooling were not significant. (LRA)

Presents a model of college entrance that focuses on the influences of public policy and the economic environment, and the interaction of these factors with student ability and parental income. (TA)

The authors evaluate the extent to which economic factors underlie the expansion of Japanese college applications. Findings indicate that "marginal investors" respond to shortrun economic factors--including direct costs, household liquidity, and probability of entering a large firm--that govern higher education. Educational quality has…

The higher proportion of private school enrollments in developing countries appears to stem from limited public spending, creating excess demand for public schools. Random variation across countries appears because of cultural, especially religious, heterogeneity. (SK)

A study to determine the effects of free counseling services and a program of subsidies for the direct costs of education and training revealed that the subsidies did induce increased school attendance, and both counseling and training affected labor supply. However, no subsequent effects of increased human capital have been found. (LRA)