Abstract:
Educational expenditure is a vast area and it covers household level all expenses incurred
by households, public sector, and voluntary organizations. Traditionally, educational
expenses can be categorized as public and private expenses. Both public and private
expenses on education create the social domain. Moreover, two are inter-related and interdependent that, in the absence of either of them, there is likely to be under allocation of
resources for education. When considering the private expenditure on education it is done
by the individual households. Determinants of household education expenditure can be
categories as household head specific characteristics, household-specific characteristics,
school-student specific characteristics, and demographic characteristics. The main
objective of this study was to identify the determinants of household education
expenditure in the Negombo D.S. Division. Only primary data was used in this study. A
questionnaire focused on group interviews, and observations were used to collect data.
100 households were selected as the sample size. The multiple regression model and the
descriptive analysis method were applied to establish relationships between determinants
and household expenditure on education. The findings of the study indicated that the
household income, the number of schoolchildren have a significant effect on household
expenditure on education. Furthermore, the paper found that the household head’s level of
education has an increasingly positive and significant effect on expenditure on education.
On the contrary, the head’s age was a negative determinant of the household expenditure
on education. According to the findings educated household heads to prefer to invest
more in their children’s education.
Keywords: Educational expenses, Determinants, Households, Negombo D.S. Division
