Factors Which Determine the Amount of Private Educational Expenditures of urban Households in Korea: With Special Reference to Extra-class Private Educational Expenditures of General High School Students

도시가계의 사교육비 지출규모의 결정요인 -일반계 고등학생의 과외사교육비를 중심으로-

Relationships between socio-demographic variables and parents' education invest-ment motivation variables and extra-class private education expenditures were examined using a sample of 602 households in Inchon Korea. Tobit analysis was used. Singal-cognitive motivation parents' duty motivation household income housing asset father's occupation class and number of children had significant effects on extra-class private education expenditures on general high school students. To alleviate overspending in extra-class private education diploma pursuing society has to be changed and formal school education need to be properly functioning. Finally parents seek new child education paradigm for the creative labor demand in the next millenium.