Components of Growth in Current Public Expenditure on Education and Health*

Abstract: This paper examines the growth in the GDP share of current public expenditure on national, vocational and university education in Ireland between 1961 and 1979 in terms of four factors: transfer changes, demographic changes, enrolment changes, and movements in relative "costs". The change in the relative cost of hospital care between 1966 and 1979 is also estimated.