Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Education and Science, cilt.51, sa.224 (2025), ss.1-19, 2025 (SSCI)
The effective provision of public
education service delivery is very important for all
countries. It is especially important for Türkiye as the country faces a
possibility of getting stuck in the middle-income trap. The
country spends a
large sum of
budgetary
resources on public education.
However, the determination
of the resource envelope at the
provincial level does not take local socio-economic and demographic
dynamics into account.
We analyze the determinants of public
education spending at the provincial level for the period of 2008-2021. Our findings
suggest that the economic composition
of provinces together
with the student-teacher ratio and enrollment
rate influence the
resource needs for
education services.
However, there is
a discrepancy between primary and secondary education
in terms of
student-teacher
ratio and enrollment rate
as they influence
the outcome in
different directions.