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The purpose of this book is to theoretically and empirically elucidate the reality of intergenerational income transfer through demand for private supplementary education, which can vary depending on the attributes of households to which children belong, and its impact on social welfare. This is the first study to construct a dynamic model to elucidate the impact of educational inequalities caused by private tutoring on social welfare, which has not been theorized enough, and to reveal the current situation of opportunity disparities in private supplementary tutoring in Japan since the late 1980s using long-term quasi-longitudinal data on family income and expenditures. By constructing a dynamic model to explain the impact of educational inequalities on social welfare arising from private tutoring, this book will make it possible to systematically and more precisely assess the current situation of educational inequalities in Japan caused by private supplementary education and its welfare evaluation.
List of contents
Chapter 1 Factors Generating Inequality in Educational Opportunities and Their Impact on Socioeconomic Outcomes A Survey.- Chapter 2 School Choice and Private Tutoring.- Chapter 3 Disparities in Out of School Educational Opportunities Measuring the Inequality of Paid Learning Opportunities Using the Kakwani Coefficient.- Chapter 4 Empirical Analysis on the Impact of Income Redistribution Effects of Taxes on Disparities in Out of School Educational Opportunities.- Chapter 5 Empirical Analysis on the Impact of Poverty on Out of School Educational Opportunities.- Chapter 6 Empirical Analysis on the Impact of Poverty on Out of School Educational Opportunities Consideration by School Type and Region.- Chapter 7 Empirical Analysis on the Mediating Effect of Out of School Education at the Elementary Education Stage.- Chapter 8 Economic Analysis on the Impact of Income Disparities on Educational Choices.
About the author
Hiroki Tanaka received his Ph.D. degree in International Public Policy from Osaka University in 2000. Currently, he is a professor in the Faculty of Policy Studies and in the Graduate School of Policy and Management, Doshisha University.
After obtaining his doctorate, Tanaka served as a senior research fellow at PHP Research Institute, Inc., from 2000 to 2003, and as a visiting research fellow in Economic and Social Research Institute of Cabinet Office, from 2003 to 2004. He served as an associate professor in the Faculty of Policy Studies, Doshisha University, from 2004 to 2007, and a professor in the Faculty of Policy Studies and in the Graduate School of Policy and Management, Doshisha University, from 2008 to the present. In 2009 and 2010 he was a visiting professor in the Faculty of Economics of the University of Cambridge. Since 2020 he has been a member of the Board of Directors in Japan Institute of Public Finance, and an editor of Fiscal Studies¿Zaisei Kenkyüsince 2023.
Tanaka has been conducting research on public economics at Doshisha University since 2004, and his research interests include fiscal competition theory, school finance, school accountability, and educational inequality.
He was awarded the Sato Publication Prize of the Japan Association of Local Public Finance in 2014.
