Long-run effects on poverty of public expenditure in education

Marisa Hidalgo Hidalgo () and Inigo Iturbe-Ormaetxe
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Marisa Hidalgo Hidalgo: Universidad de Alicante
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Working Papers. Serie AD from Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie)

Abstract: Household characteristics may have long-run effects on individual outcomes in adulthood. For instance, individuals who lived when young in households experiencing financial problems are more likely to be poor when adults. Public intervention in education is one of the most important means by which governments try to reduce these effects and to promote equality of opportunity. The objective of this paper is to check whether public expenditure in education has an effect in reducing the probability of being poor when adult, and to what extent. Our main finding is that public expenditure in primary education has a strong long-run effect on reducing incidence of poverty in adulthood. We also find that this effect is concentrated mainly among individuals who have parents with a low level of education.

Keywords: public expenditure in education; poverty rate; intergenerational transmission of poverty. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H52 I21 I23 J24 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 41 pages
Date: 2014-11
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