Educational Expenditure (OECD)

The OECD published the New ECB Statistics on Euro Area Investment Funds. In this issue they analyse the Statistics Netherlands: Analysing the sources of change in educational expenditure, where they introduced a decomposition method to explain changes in spending on education. The method uses predefined factors which changes in expenditure are attributed. This article gives a brief explanation of the decomposition method and a number of results for Dutch expenditure on education for the period 1197-2007 and they too analysis the statistics of the Sweden and Canada see: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/16/11/44978925.pdf