期刊名称：Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research
印刷版ISSN：1949-4270
电子版ISSN：1949-4289
出版年度：2012
卷号：7
期号：1
出版社：International Association of Educators
摘要：It has long been argued that there is a close relationship between education and economic
development at both individual and societal levels. Economists have found that the level of
educational infrastructure is an important indicator of economic development. Similarly,
economic variables have been found to be strongly related to school enrollment in many
studies. Hence, we investigate the relationship between GDP per capita and school enrollment
rates at the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels during the period 1980–2008 in Turkey. To
this end, we employed Toda-Yamamoto’s (1995) causality test. Findings of our analyses
suggest that there is a statistically significant relationship between GDP per capita and the
school enrollment rate at the primary level bi-directionally. A significant relationship between
these two variables at the secondary level was also indicated in the study, but this relationship
was only significant in one direction: from the GDP per capita to the secondary school
enrollment rate. For the tertiary level, no casual relationship was found between changes in
GDP per capita and the school enrollment rate.
