Long-run effects of public expenditure on poverty

Marisa Hidalgo-Hidalgo and Inigo Iturbe-Ormaetxe

The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2018, vol. 16, issue 1, No 1, 22 pages

Abstract: 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. Governments try to reduce these effects and to promote equality of opportunity. The objective of this paper is to check whether public expenditure has a long-run effect in reducing the probability of being poor when adult, and to what extent. Our main finding is that public expenditure on 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 on education; Poverty rate; Intergenerational transmission of poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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