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Cost-benefit Analysis, Investment In Higher Education

Posted on:2009-06-27Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J F HouFull Text:PDF
GTID:2207360245999341Subject:Regional Economics
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From the view point of economics,high education belongs to a kind of human capital investment, obeying the behavioral analysis model of investor completely.As a kind of rational investment behavior, the returns of its education investment will certainly attract people's attention.To some extent, the size of the returns ratio of high education reflects whether the high education investment is good or not.So it can provide policy-making reference for both the individual and society to invest in the high education.Surely,study the returns must study the costs firstly,theirfore.In this line of thought, the paper first to introduce the topics of the background, meaning,such as the cost and the returns of educantion. Introduced the theory of calculating costs and the returns with Marxist theory in economics,Schultz's human capital theory,educational economics and the cost and the benefit refer to the education . In order to quantitize the social cost , individual cost , social returns ratio and individual returns ratio, this article briefly introduced some methods of caculating the education cost and benefit such as the Statistic Analysis,the Accountant Counting Analysis Positive results of the study is to better guide practice, this paper quasi-public higher education with the nature of the products that individuals share some of the costs of higher education is reasonable. However, the share of specific individuals, this combination of foreign and domestic situation of higher education affordability of the residents, put forward some ideas. Finally, with the current situation, the rational choice of the individual investment in higher education made a number of reasonable proposals.
Keywords/Search Tags:high education, cost, returns, rate of return, Cost-sharing
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