Can Education Targets be Met Without Increasing Public Spending? An Analysis for Brazilian Municipalities

Fabiana Rocha, Plinio Portela de Oliveira (), Janete Duarte (), Sérgio Ricardo de Brito Gadelha () and Luis Felipe Vital Nunes Pereira ()
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Plinio Portela de Oliveira: Brazilian National Treasury Secretariat
Janete Duarte: Brazilian National Treasury Secretariat
Sérgio Ricardo de Brito Gadelha: Brazilian National Treasury Secretariat
Luis Felipe Vital Nunes Pereira: Brazilian National Treasury Secretariat

Economics Bulletin, 2017, vol. 37, issue 1, 391-401

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to assess the efficiency of public spending education by local governments in Brazil and to evaluate whether the financial resources that municipalities allocate to education are sufficient to guarantee that they achieve the quality targets established for 2021. We assume that family background (measured by parent´s education) is a fixed input in the short run, and that municipalities only have control over the amount they spend on education. Results indicate that the amount of non-efficiently spent resources is significant and that most local governments could actually meet their targets without additional resources, only by moving to best practices.

Keywords: efficiency; expenditures; education; municipalities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H4 H8 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-02-25
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