Educational Achievement and the Cost of Bureaucracy
Document Type
Article
Journal/Book Title/Conference
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Volume
15
Publication Date
1991
First Page
29
Last Page
45
Recommended Citation
Educational Achievement and the Cost of Bureaucracy” (with Gary M. Anderson and Robert D. Tollison), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 15 (1991), pp. 29–45.
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Comments
It is the purpose of this paper to test the following proposition: holding other important factors constant, does the size of the educational bureaucracy have any effect on the efficiency of school systems in producing educational achievement? The empirical results suggest that this is indeed the case. Using 1984 data from the states, we find that public school students in states having relatively large educational bureaucracies are less likely to graduate from high school, and those who do tend to perform more poorly on standardized achievement tests.