On the causality between household and government spending on education: evidence from a panel of 40 countries

Abida Naurin () and Panayiotis Pourpourides
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Abida Naurin: Quaid-i-Azam University Campus

Empirical Economics, 2023, vol. 65, issue 2, No 1, 567-585

Abstract: Abstract This paper sheds light on an important causality which is of primary interest for policy makers, at both country level and broad institutional level, though it is largely ignored in the literature. Using panel data from a diversified group of countries and after controlling for various factors and endogeneities within the context of multivariate models, we present evidence that an increase in the intensity of government spending on education leads to an overall increase in the intensity of household spending on education of a roughly equal magnitude, within a span of two years. Specifically, a 1% increase in the intensity of government spending on education induces a contemporaneous increase in the intensity of household spending on education of 3%, followed by a correction of 2% the subsequent year. We further find that the reverse causality does not hold. Our mediation analysis within our set of variables suggests that the causality is only direct, and that there is no statistically significant distinction between low- and high-income countries.

Keywords: Household spending on education; Government spending on education; Causality; Credit market (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E2 G5 I22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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