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- Vol. 21 | (2)
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03. The impact of establishment size policy.pdf
- TITLE
- Impact of Establishment Size Policy on the Education Profession: Regression Discontinuity Design with Multiple Assignment Variables
- KEYWORDS
- local education agency, establishment size policy, education profession, regression discontinuity, educational administration demand
DOI : 10.22804/kjep.2024.21.3.003
Abstract
The goal of this paper is to gain insight into the establishment size policy, and how the local education agency (LEA) makes changes to the number of education professionals faced with the size regulation. The specific research question is, how does the standard of organization establishment impact the proportion of education professionals within an LEA? Utilizing unique data from multiple sources, the Korean Department of Education and the Korean Educational Statistics Service (KESS), we employed regression discontinuity with 176 LEA-level data spanning from 2017 through 2019 under a sharp discontinuity assumption. The main results show that the treated LEAs hire fewer education professionals than their counterparts, the order of about 4.24. In other words, those LEAs above the establishment size policy are less likely to expand their educational service function. Given that educational demand is rapidly changing and increasing, the share of education specialists needs to be increased, and their role should be more specified and empowered. Therefore, this study suggests that educational specialists who understand macroscopic and continuous policy trends should be expanded in need of regional demand, and that a qualitative approach and collaborative culture should be established within the organization.