抄録
The relation between educational finance and household economy has increased in its instability with changes in the policy of the welfare state. From the viewpoint of "security at the lowest level, "educational finance treats only the low-income hierarchy as the target of protection, and particular concerns about other household economies have not been examined. However, the wealth gap of the household economy has been discussed in recent years and the "unequal society" to which this correlation with "equality of opportunity of education" has been strengthened. Moreover, many household economies feel more educational expense increases and come to have distrust of the education system. In this problematical situation, this article analyzes the following: 1. Firstly, a time series analysis concerning household economy income and educational expenses is done. The preceding research on educational finance study is referred to in this analysis. And Educational expenses making for "hierarchical consumption", in addition to the distortion of "equality of the opportunity of education" by "hierarchical consumption", is pointed out. The relation between new liberal educational reforms and "hierarchical consumption" is considered from the viewpoint of revaluing the modern meaning of "equality of opportunity of education" which is based on the modern theory of the welfare state. 2. Secondly, the adjustment of educational finance and household economy is examined. First of all, the current state of educational finance theory is pointed out by which an effective opinion was not found concerning the relation between the household economy and educational finance. Because there is a theoretical opposition between "logic of the supply side" and "logic of the demand side", moreover, the relation between educational finance and household economy is mainly caught through the income re-distribution function. However, the resource allocation function of educational finance works better in severe situations of government finances and household economy, and the resource allocation function is proven to be effective as a positive function of finance. To improve "inequality of the opportunity of the education" by "hierarchical consumption" and to develop the equalization function of educational finance, it is clarified that the actual service provision ability in resource allocation is effective. 3. Finally, to achieve a positive function of educational finance, recognition of the "family's failure" in education policy and financial empowerment for regional government is important.
