Educational System and Educational Production: Comparative Study of 70 Countries

The main thrust of this paper is to study the impact of type of educational system(centralized, semi-centralized and decentralized) on the educational production.The impact may be studied from two perspectives: on the one hand, its indirectimpact through three-fold aspects (economic, social and political) of developmentin each country, and its direct impact on the other. The research has been conductedthrough comparative, quantitative method or cross-country analysis, and the dataof 70 countries related to 1999-2004 have been used.The results of regression analysis indicate that economic development with 0.27share, economic development with 0.14 share and social development with 0.29share independently explain the dependent variable (educational production). Alsothe educational system with 0.38 share through three levels of development has ameaningful impact on the educational production. The results of structural equationmodeling also indicate that the type of educational system and the three levels ofdevelopment have their impacts on the educational production. The comparisonof the educational systems leads to the conclusion that compared to the centralizedand semi-centralized educational systems, the decentralized educational systemenjoys higher educational production.