澳大利亚高等教育的成本函数[文献翻译]

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1、本科毕业论文（设计）外文翻译原文：ACostFunctionforHigherEducationinAustralia(extract)1.IntroductionThisstudyestimatesacostfunctionforhighereducationinAustralianuniversities.Theestimatedfunctionisusedtoexaminethecostofprovidinghighereducationtooverseasstudents.Inthehighereducationsector,productionfunctionsareusefu

2、lforevaluatingthestructureoftheindustryandcanserveasguidesforindividualinstitutionsonpoliciesaffectingtheirsizeandscope.Moreover,inviewoftherelaxationofprovisionsunderwhichuniversitiescanprovidehighereducationtofull-feepayingdomesticstudents,informationfromcostfunctionscanassistinstitutionstodeve

3、lopappropriatepricingstrategies.Costfunctionsalsoprovideanopportunitytoevaluatethecostofprovidinghighereducationtooverseasstudents.Highereducationcostsforanindividualuniversitycanbeestablishedfromadetailedaccountingexerciseinwhichtheexplicitandimplicitcostsallocatedtocoursesandlevelsarecollected.

4、However,inobtainingthecostsofoverseasstudents,thereisstillbeaneedforacostfunctionbecauseitisnecessarytoexaminewhatthecostswouldbeunderalternativestudentnumbers,thatis,withandwithoutoverseasstudents.Someideaofthevariationincostswithdifferentnumberscanbeobtainedbycomparinguniversitiesatthesamedateb

5、utwithdifferentstudentprofiles.Hencetheuseofcostfunctionsprovidesamethodformeasuringthenetbenefits(orcosts)oftheprovidingeducationtooverseasstudents.Thepaperisorganisedasfollows.Section2reviewssomeofthepreviousworkdoneontheAustralianhighereducationsectoranddiscussessomerelevantissues.Section3pres

6、entsthebasiccostfunctionmodel,describesthedataandpresentsempiricalresults.Section4presentsresultsfromtheapplicationofthecostfunction,includingthecostspredictionsfortheprovisionofhighereducationforoverseasstudents.Section5drawspolicyimplicationsandconclusions.2.PreviousWorkandSomeIssuesThrosby(198

7、6)estimatedthecostofprovidinghighereducationusingdatafrom18Australianuniversitiesfortheperiod1978to1982.ThiswasfollowedbyLloydetal.(1993)andLloyd(1994),whichdefinedtheconditionsunderwhichthefunctionalformofthecostfunct