Asignación de gasto público educativo en un modelo macroeconómico OLG. Aplicación al caso de Uruguay

Sebastián Alejandro Villano Rey ()
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Sebastián Alejandro Villano Rey: Universidad de la República del Uruguay

Chapter 09 in Investigaciones de Economía de la Educación, 2017, vol. 12, pp 155-190 from Asociación de Economía de la Educación

Abstract: For many years both the political and the national public agenda have been aware of the problems within the public education sector. While the Uruguayan education system is subject to various criticisms, this study addresses aspects of the allocation of public resources and its impact on skills development. This paper, utilizing an overlapping generations (OLG) macroeconomic model for a small and open economy, analyzes, what is the impact of the allocation of public expenditure on education on the stock of human capital. Assuming a hierarchical education system in an equilibrium framework, the model analyzes the impacts of public policies on the agent’s microeconomic decisions and the macroeconomic effects. The results show that an increase in resources allocated for education as well as an improvement in the efficiency of the education system would have positive impacts on the generation of human capital and development. At the same time the formation of human capital can be impacted, in the face of fiscal austerity, solely with the reallocation of resources between different tiers of education. It is concluded that in order for the education system to generate human capital capable of stimulating economic growth, it is necessary to ensure a basic alignment of the different types of public policy that affect individual microeconomic incentives. Furthermore, it is noted that the impact of public policy on the generation of human capital depends on the relation between the levels of private and public spending on education.

Keywords: hierarchical education system; public spending; human capital; education policy; overlapping generations model (OLG) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D91 E25 H52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
ISBN: 978-84-947381-5-9
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