论教育投入及其结构对经济增长的作用

Effect of Educational Investment and Its Structure on Economic Growth

教育投入和教育投入结构是影响经济增长的重要因素,利用我国1990-2012年教育经费投入、高等教育投入占总投入的比重和国内生产总值数据,实证研究了教育投入、投入结构对经济增长的影响。研究表明:教育投入与经济增长正向相关,而教育投入结构(高等教育投入占总投入的比重)与经济增长是负相关关系。因此,国家应进一步加大财政性教育经费的投入,同时在投入方向上向中等和基础教育倾斜。

This paper makes an empirical study on the effect of education investment and its structure on economic growth based on the data of the education input,ration of higher education investment in GDP in the years from 1990 to 2012.The survey has the following findings.The impact of education investment and the educational investment structure on economic growth won't show up until a periodand it will last for a long time;the education investment is positively correlated with economic growth,and the elastic coefficient is 0.881;the structure of educational investment(higher education investment accounted for the total proportion of investment)is negatively correlated with and economic growth,and the elastic coefficient is 0.7386.Therefore,the government should further increase the financial education funds,and the priority of investment should be given to primary and secondary education.