Implications of Brazilian institutional guidelines on educational efficiency

Marcus Gerardus L. Nascimento, Kalinca L. Becker and Mario Jorge Mendonça

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Abstract: This paper investigates the relation between inefficiency in the Brazilian education system and municipal wealth, discussing how the current legislation possibly influences it. To that end, we apply a stochastic frontier model that accommodates covariates in the asymmetric error component to analyze the impact of per capita GDP on inefficiency. This methodology is applied to a data set on the Rio Grande do Sul municipalities for the years 2007 and 2017. The results indicate a positive effect, suggesting that richer municipalities are less efficient in allocating their resources.

Keywords: stochastic frontier analysis; Bayesian inference; inefficiency; FUNDEB (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C11 D61 H75 I20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2020-10-01
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Published in Economía, 1, October, 2020, 21(1), pp. 147 - 168. ISSN: 1529-7470

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