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Globalization, redistribution, and the composition of public education expenditures
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal - 2010
We analyze whether globalization affects the composition of public expenditures for education by integrating arguments … towards lower education. In industrialized countries, on the other hand, globalization has an ambiguous effect on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267052
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Public Education Spending in a Globalized World: Is there a Shift in Priorities Across Educational Stages?
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Konstanz - 2011
This paper studies the effect of globalization on public expenditures allocated to different stages of education. First …, we derive theoretically that globalization’s influence on education expenditures depends on the type of government. For … globalization on public education spending cannot be unambiguously predicted. In the second part of the paper, we empirically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009319012
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Globalization and the Composition of Public Education Expenditures: A Dynamic Panel Analysis
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Konstanz - 2010
This paper studies the relationship between globalization and the composition of public education expenditures. The … theoretical model is embedded in a median voter setting and is based on the assumption that globalization leads to lower tax … globalization induces a shift from primary to tertiary education expenditures, which is backed up by empirical evidence from dynamic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008673504
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Globalization and the Composition of Public Education Expenditures: A Dynamic Panel Analysis
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper studies the relationship between globalization and the composition of public education expenditures. The … theoretical model is embedded in a median voter setting and is based on the assumption that globalization leads to lower tax … globalization induces a shift from primary to tertiary education expenditures, which is backed up by empirical evidence from dynamic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008685497
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Globalization, Redistribution, and the Composition of Public Education Expenditures
Baskaran, Thushyanthan - 2010
We analyze whether globalization affects the composition of public expenditures for education by integrating arguments … towards lower education. In industrialized countries, on the other hand, globalization has an ambiguous effect on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148296
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School Vouchers in Practice: Competition Won't Hurt You!
Sandström, F. Mikael; Bergström, Fredrik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2002
An important issue in the debate on voucher systems and school choice is what effects competition from independent schools will have on public schools. Sweden has made a radical reform of its system for financing schools. Independent and public schools operate on close to equal terms under a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419504
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Conditional Cash Transfers and Education Quality in the Presence of Credit Constraints
Rey, Elena Del; Estevan, Fernanda - Département d'Économie / Department of Economics, … - 2011
We investigate the relative merits of unconditional cash transfers (UCT), conditional cash transfers (CCT), and improvements in education quality on efficiency and welfare. In our setting some parents under-invest in their children's education because capital market imperfections prevent them...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009274503
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Conditional cash transfers and education quality in the presence of credit constraints
Del Rey, Elena; Estevan, Fernanda - In: Economics of Education Review 34 (2013) C, pp. 76-84
We investigate the relative merits of unconditional cash transfers (UCT), conditional cash transfers (CCT), and the effects of improvements in education quality on efficiency and welfare. In our setting, some parents underinvest in their children's education because capital market imperfections...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010665944
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Public Education Expenditures and Private School Enrollment
Estevan, Fernanda - Departamento de Economia, Faculdade de Economia, … - 2014
In this paper, I investigate whether increases in public education expenditures lead to reductions in private school enrollment. In order to deal with the endogeneity of public expenditures, I use as a natural experiment the 1998 FUNDEF reform in Brazil that caused exogenous variations in local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010894486
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School Vouchers in Practice: Competition Won't Hurt You!
Sandström, F. Mikael; Bergström, Fredrik - 2002
An important issue in the debate on voucher systems and school choice is what effects competition from independent schools will have on public schools. Sweden has made a radical reform of its system for financing schools. Independent and public schools operate on close to equal terms under a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320160