Access and use of financial markets for basic education expenses

Kristiano Raccanello (), Laura Elena Carrillo Cubillas and Mariana Guzmán Yerena
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Kristiano Raccanello: El Colegio de Tlaxcala A.C.
Laura Elena Carrillo Cubillas: Galilei A.C., Puebla, México
Mariana Guzmán Yerena: Deloitte, Ciudad de México

Contaduría y Administración, 2017, vol. 62, issue 3, 861-879

Abstract: As a result of the financial crisis of 2008, the macroeconomic adjustment has affected Mexican homes through greater unemployment and a drop in purchasing power. Moreover, families had to keep financing education costs, sometimes going into debt in the formal or informal financial market. The hypothesis of this article proposes that the access and use of formal and informal financial products makes it possible to reduce financial problems associated to education expenses at the basic education levels. The probit model is estimated with a sample comprised of four hundred homes in the municipality of San Pedro Cholula (state of Puebla). The results indicate that a worsening in the work conditions and the loss of employment are associated to a greater probability of facing financial difficulties. Likewise, the access to the formal financial market allows reducing the probability of facing these difficulties, whereas for the informal market the results are a function of the characteristics of each financial intermediary.

Keywords: Educational financing; Private expense; Financial markets; Mexico (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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