EVASION AND QUALITY IN PRIVATE HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS: AN ANALYSIS OF TRANSACTION COST ECONOMICS

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Adriano Maniçoba da
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Sauaia, Antonio Carlos Aidar
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Administração (São Paulo. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://raep.emnuvens.com.br/raep/article/view/5
• topic: evasion; Transaction Cost Economics; HEI Quality.; evasão; Economia dos Custos de Transação; qualidade em IES

Recent government incentives have subsidized students’ entry to private Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Brazil. This policy reduces the financial motivation that contributes to evasion, which affects the financial viability of private HEIs. Thus, private institutions have to manage elements that affect their economic viability, as is the case with evasion. Adjusting their resources may lead to a reduction in the quality offered by HEIs. The objective of this paper is to verify the relationship between evasion and the quality of the education offered in private higher education. The Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) hypothesis argues that private institutions reduce their quality due to evasion as an efficiency adjustment reaction. Regression was used on the IGC [General Course Index] (a quality scale employed by the Brazilian government) as a predictor of evasion. The results support the existence of a negative linear relationship between quality and evasion, illustrating the risks of increasing the offer of quality higher education by indiscriminately increasing places in private institutions.