Abstract
The aim of this article is to calculate the market valuation of quality characteristics and locational attributes of private secondary school in Spain. In order to achieve this, a hedonic price regression is estimated. The quality characteristics of a school appear to be important determinants of tuition in Spain.
Acknowledgement
We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Education, Project ECO2011-26499 and the University of Oviedo, Project UNOV-11-MA-11.
Notes
1 For detailed information, consult the following pages: http://aula2.elmundo.es/aula/especiales/2006/100colegios/criterios.html; http://aula2.elmundo.es/aula/especiales/2007/100colegios/index.html; http://www.elmundo.es/especiales/2008/03/aula/100colegios/index.html.
2 If you wish to obtain details on education systems in Europe, you can consult the EURYBASE database (http://www.eurydice.org), the Cedefop database (http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/EN) and the website of the European Training foundation (http://www.etf.europa.eu/).