This study analyzed the effect of Fundeb on the Saeb results of the municipalities by estimating a spatial panel model with information from 2007 and 2017, which contemplates the 10 years of the fund's implementation. The results indicated that the increase of 10% in the Fundeb amount per...

Income contingent loans (ICLs) are a financial tool that optimizes the transactional efficiencies involved in the government monopoly in taxing personal income. It protects the borrowers against periods of low income, as instalments vary according to fluctuations in their incomes over the...

This text aims to analyze the reform of secondary education in Brazil from a specific perspective: the potential to go beyond the traditional task of enabling students to go to university or to become career-ready by offering a broader and more balanced education that prepares them for entry...

This work seeks to undo any duality between cultural rights and the right to education and between popular culture and fine arts, in order to better visualize the structure of a political public art education. Respecting to the first duality, what is pursued is the building of an argumentative...

This text aims to offer three contributions to the study of Brazilian public expenditures on health and education. First by constructing annual and bimonthly estimates of these expenditures in order to allow time series analyses of their historical evolution. Second by analysing the relative...

Fundamental education is mainly provided by municipalities according to a decentralized model in which local management transforms resources transferred by the federal government into educational results that are centrally monitored. This mode of operation is conducive to the evaluation of...

The objective of this paper is to develop a theoretical model that take into account the role of institutions in the Brazilian States and their impact on the education of the youth and on illiterate people. Here, the institutions mean educational policies, government efficiency, level of...

This paper emphasizes the importance of assessment and incentive systems in education. In particular, it analyzes the design and implementation of the National System of Performance Assessment applied in Chile since 1996. In the first place, we discuss th

This paper uses parametric and semiparametric techniques to examine educational inequality by geographical areas in Chile. The differences in achievement are also investigated across school types administration (public, private subsidized and private fee