1. Patterns and Determinants of Household Expenditure on Engineering Education in Delhi Pradeep Kumar Choudhury Doctoral Scholar, National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA), New Delhi, India www.nuepa.org 13 th EADI General Conference and DSA Annual Conference (19-22 September 2011) York, UK 20 th September 2011 1

2. Introduction Financing for Development Education and Development Financing of Education 2

3. Rationale Higher and professional education as quasi-public good Excess demand for higher education Massive Privatization of Higher Education Private return exceeds social return in case of higher education 3

4. Objectives To analyze the patterns of household expenditure on engineering education. To find out the possible determinants of household expenditure on engineering education in Delhi. 4

5. Sample Institutions GovernmentPrivateTotal 5611 Students 4796991178 Students from Traditional Departments = 246 Students from IT related Departments = 745 5

6. Household expenditure on eng. education by gender (Rs. in 000) Heads of Exp. Total MFT Fees (Tuition + Other) 41.746.142.3 Non-fee Expenditure 23.418.922.7 Additional expenditure 23.520.823.1 Total Household Expenditure 70.969.370.6 6

7. Household expenditure on eng. Education management (Rs. in 000) Heads of Exp.GovernmentPrivate Fees (Tuition + Other) 22.555.2 Non-fee Expenditure 22.023.2 Additional expenditure 22.923.2 Total Household Expenditure 51.782.3 7

8. Total Household expenditure on eng. education by social category and management (Rs. in 000) SC & STOBCGen Government 56.957.150.8 Private 69.196.882.9 Total 62.581.171.4 8

9. Total Household expenditure on eng. education by family income (Rs. in 000 ) Family Income MaleFemaleTotal < Rs. 0.1 million 78.959.576.2 0.1 -0.5 million 70.871.470.9 0.5 - 1 million 63.374.365.5 > 1 million 70.193.872.7 9

10. Household expenditure on eng. Education by department of study (000) Item TraditionalIT Fees (Tuition + Other)42.2 Non-fee Expenditure22.122.9 Additional expenditure21.824.3 Total Household Expenditure on eng. education 71.671.4 10

11. Determinants of total household expenditure on engineering education VariableTotal HH Exp. on eng. education Muslim -0.34*** SC -0.16*** Lnfamily_income 0.01 Mangt. of the college 0.54* Furtheredu_Master 0.31* Furtheredu2_PhD 0.22** R-square= 0.18, N=751 11

12. Determinants of household expenditure on non-fee items of engineering education VariableHH Exp. on eng. Education on non-fee items Lnfamily_income -0.15** Sibling 0.18* Dept_study -0.19* Edu_loan 0.37* Furtheredu_Master 0.30** Furtheredu_PhD 0.40** R-square= 0.05, N=477 12

13. Summary Gender difference Difference in household expenditure by management Expenditure difference by income group (Inverse) No difference by departments of study 13

14. Thank you Pradeep.hcu@gmail.com 14