Public Education Expenditures and Private School Enrollment

Fernanda Estevan

No 2014_14, Working Papers, Department of Economics from University of São Paulo (FEA-USP)

Abstract: In this paper, I investigate whether increases in public education expenditures lead to reductions in private school enrollment. In order to deal with the endogeneity of public expenditures, I use as a natural experiment the 1998 FUNDEF reform in Brazil that caused exogenous variations in local public school funding. Using data from Brazilian School and Population Censuses, I show that public education expenditures increases are associated with reductions in the share of private school enrollment for Grade 1. However, the effect is smaller for Grades 2 to 4, which is consistent with the existence of costs associated with switching schools.

Keywords: private education; public education; public expenditures; school choice; crowding out. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H42 H52 I22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-09-01
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