Welfare distribution of collective in-kind transfers in education: an application to the extended schools programme

Simone Angioloni, Ziping Wu and Erin Sherry

Applied Economics Letters, 2018, vol. 25, issue 20, 1411-1415

Abstract: In this study, we employ the distributional characteristics approach to analyse the welfare distribution of the Extended Schools Programme, a social programme that fights inequality in Northern Ireland’s public schools. Our main result is that increasing funding to schools as their size increases penalizes the most deprived students. This is because the school size, although related to the educational supply, does not reflect the distribution of deprivation within schools. Thus, although in the Northern Irish context the largest welfare gains are possible if funds are redistributed among middle-size schools, our general result indicates an excessive support of small-size schools at the expenses of large-size schools.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2017.1422596

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