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    The role of public and private sectors in elementary, secondary and tertiary education: the Philippine case
    (1998-10) Abajon, Mhelvin F.; Abao, Lary Nel B.; Canlas, Dante B.
    This paper seeks to answer these questions about the Philippine educational system: (1) why is private participation high in secondary and tertiary education, and small in primary; and (2) why is the trend towards less private participation in secondary and tertiary education, and more in primary. We used the conceptual framework developed by Estelle James (1993) in our study. The relative size of the private sector in education is modelled as depending on excess demand for quantity and differentiated demand for quality that may arise from limited public educational spending, differentiated demand for kind of education, supply of non-profit entrepreneurship and government policies. Public educational spending is likewise modelled as depending on the collective decision of families given their expected benefits and costs, and the amount of private provision. The results of our statistical analyses show that the variations in private participation across levels can be explained by excess demand that depends on the amount of public educational spending. While for the differences in trends of each levels of education, we made the following findings: (1) differentiated demand arising from cultural diversity and diverse tastes about quality explains the increasing trend of the private sector at the elementary level; (2) the reduction in excess demand for private schools due to the increasingly· expensive price of private secondary education, and the expansion in government production of education as a response to the falling private provision account for the shrinkage of the relative role of the private sector at the secondary level; and (3) the reduction of excess demand about quantity and differentiated demand about quality for private schools due to expansions in public educational spending are the major reasons for the decreasing private share at the tertiary level.