The efficiency of public education spending in Latin America: A comparison to high-income countries

2016 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 188-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paola Azar Dufrechou
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Public Education ◽  
High Income ◽  
Education Spending ◽  
Public Education Spending

scholarly journals Intergenerational Upward (Im)mobility and Political Support of Public Education Spending

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debora Di Gioacchino ◽  
Laura Sabani ◽  
Stefano Usai
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Public Expenditures ◽  
Education Spending ◽  
The Public ◽  
Education Decisions ◽  
Low Education ◽  
Public Education Spending ◽  
Country Specific

AbstractThis paper provides a simple model of hierarchical education to study the political determination of public education spending and its allocation between different tiers of education. The model integrates private education decisions by allowing parents, who are differentiated according to income and human capital, to top up public expenditures with private transfers. We identify four groups of households with conflicting preferences over the the size of the public education budget and its allocation. In equilibrium, public education budget, private expenditures and expenditure allocation among different tiers of education, depend on which group of households is in power and on country-specific features such as income inequality and intergenerational persistence in education. By running a cluster analysis on 32 OECD countries, we seek to establish if distinctive ‘education regimes’, akin to those identified in the theoretical analysis, could be discerned. Our main finding is that a high intergenerational persistence in education might foster the establishment of education regimes in which the size and the allocation of the public budget among different tiers of education prevent a stable and significant increase of the population graduation rate, thus plunging the country in a ‘low education’ trap.

scholarly journals The Expansion of Mass Education in Twentieth Century Latin America: A Global Comparative Perspective

2009 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ewout Frankema
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Mass Education ◽  
Education Spending ◽  
Quality Performance ◽  
Public Education Spending

ABSTRACTThis paper studies the expansion of mass education in Latin America in the twentieth century from a global comparative perspective. The paper argues that expansion in terms of enrolment and attainment levels was quite impressive. A comparative analysis of the grade enrolment distribution demonstrates, however, that the rapid expansion of primary school enrolment did not correspond with an equally impressive improvement in educational quality. The persistently large tertiary education bias in public education spending suggests that part of the poor quality performance is related to a lack of fscal support for primary education and that the political economy explanation for educational underdevelopment, as advanced by Engerman, Mariscal and Sokoloff for the 19th century, still applied to Latin America during most of the 20th century.

scholarly journals Effets des dépenses publiques d’éducation, la fiscalité et la corruption sur la croissance économique en Afrique de l’ouest : une analyse empirique sur données de panel

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (38) ◽  
pp. 160
Author(s):  
Thierno Ndao Guèye
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Education Spending ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Données De Panel ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Secteur Informel ◽  
Public Education Spending

Dans cette étude, nous examinons empiriquement les effets des dépenses publiques d’éducation, la fiscalité et la corruption sur la croissance économique par habitant à long terme à partir de modèles économétriques des données de panel de 10 pays d’Afrique de l’ouest sur la période 2004-2020. D’abord, nos résultats montrent qu’il existe une relation positive et significative entre les dépenses publiques d’éducation retardées de 5 ans et la croissance économique par habitant. En effet, une augmentation de 1% des dépenses publiques d’éducation entraînerait une hausse moyenne de 0,42% du taux de croissance économique. Tous les gouvernements de l’Afrique occidentale veulent atteindre les objectifs de l’éducation pour tous. Cette extension ne pourrait pas se réaliser sans une augmentation des dépenses publiques. Parallèlement, suivant l’approche de l’équivalence ricardienne, les sources de financement de l’éducation, telles que les impôts et les dettes publiques, agissent négativement sur la croissance économique. Ensuite, la corruption, en affectant significativement la croissance économique, entraîne des pertes importantes de recettes fiscales. Ce qui gangrène l’efficacité des efforts de financement des politiques publiques d’éducation. Enfin, dans le cadre scolaire global, seul le taux de scolarisation aux études supérieures exerce un effet réellement significatif sur la croissance à long terme. Ce résultat est d’une grande portée, car la forte tertiarisation des économies de ces pays est accompagnée d’un secteur informel occupant une place très importante et marginalement pris en compte dans le calcul du PIB. In this study, we empirically examine the effects of public education spending, taxation and corruption on long-term per capita economic growth using econometric models of panel data from 10 West African countries on the period 2004-2020. First, our results show that there is a positive and significant relationship between public education spending delayed by 5 years and per capita economic growth. Indeed, a 1% increase in public education spending would lead to an average 0.42% increase in the rate of economic growth. All governments in West Africa want to achieve education for all goals. This extension could not be achieved without an increase in public spending. At the same time, following the Ricardian equivalence approach, the sources of financing of education, such as taxes and public debt, act negatively on economic growth. Second, corruption, by significantly affecting economic growth, leads to significant losses in tax revenue. This undermines the effectiveness of efforts to fund public education policies. Finally, within the overall educational framework, only the rate of enrollment in higher education has a truly significant effect on long-term growth. This result is farreaching, because the strong tertiarization of the economies of these countries is accompanied by an informal sector occupying a very important place and marginally taken into account in the calculation of the GDP.

Individual preferences for public education spending: Does personal income matter?

2019 ◽  
Vol 82 ◽  
pp. 211-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debora Di Gioacchino ◽  
Laura Sabani ◽  
Simone Tedeschi
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Personal Income ◽  
Education Spending ◽  
Individual Preferences ◽  
Public Education Spending

Public Education Spending and Poverty in Burkina Faso: A Computable General Equilibrium Approach

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lacina Balma ◽  
W. Francine Alida Ilboudo ◽  
Adama Ouattara ◽  
Romeo Kabore ◽  
Kassoum Zerbo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
General Equilibrium ◽  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Computable General Equilibrium ◽  
Education Spending ◽  
Equilibrium Approach ◽  
Public Education Spending

How does natural resource dependence affect public education spending?

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 3666-3674 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hua-ping Sun ◽  
Wei-feng Sun ◽  
Yong Geng ◽  
Xi Yang ◽  
Bless Kofi Edziah
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Resource Dependence ◽  
Education Spending ◽  
Natural Resource Dependence ◽  
Public Education Spending
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