학원 교습시간 규제가 사교육비에 미치는 영향

Abstract

This research study estimated effects of reducing the expenditure of private education according to the Enactment 2011 that stipulates p. m. 10 as the limited hours when academies are supposed to teach. To do it, this study used the 13th (Year 2010) and the 14th (Year 2011) Data of KLIPS (Korea Labor and Income Panel Study) which can track down the change of the same objects. Specifically, this research study reckoned and analyzed such effects, grouping into each school and class, with the use of Difference in Difference, taking it into account that the limited hours when each academy taught in 2010 had been different according to each area and class before the system was implemented, and the related ordinance is expected to have different effects according to each class. The analytic results of this research study can be summarized as follows. There are no statistically significant relations in all estimates of Difference in Difference of the expenditure of private education, and overall private education according to the Enactment 2011 that stipulates p. m. 10 as the limited hours when academies are supposed to teach. This shows that it is difficult to expect effects of the execution of the new system on reducing the expenditure of academy private education and overall private education for elementary, middle, high school students. As academies are allowed to teach within the limited hours until p. m. 10, those weekday hours when academies teach have rather been reduced. Given this fact, it is considered that in order to maintain the expenditure of academy private education at the same level as ever, the Class Weekdays might be replaced by the Class Weekends. Such results can become the substantive evidence that there is no validity between both assertions of the 'increase of the expenditure of overall private education by substitute private education' raised against the limited teaching hours of academies, and the 'decrease of the expenditure of academy private education' raised in favor of those limited hours. The purpose of the ordinance related to the limited teaching hours of academies is to relieve off the household burden from the expenditure of private education caused by excessive academy costs, and to assure students' health, safety and security. Considering this, it is required that the ordinance related to limited teaching hours of academies must place the policy focus on the means to offer rights of health and relaxation that students can have, not those to cut down the expenditure of private education.