Do voters vote for education? Evidence from Brazilian municipal elections

• Grant number: 14/20307-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Effective date (Start): January 01, 2015
• Effective date (End): May 31, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Economics - Economics of Human Resources
• Acordo de Cooperação: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Fernanda Gonçalves de La Fuente Estevan
• Grantee: Matheus de Mello de Assunção
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade (FEA). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 15/16095-6 - Do voters vote for education? Evidence from Brazilian municipal elections, BE.EP.MS

Abstract

Basic education is widely cited in the literature in economics as an essential factor to the development of a country. Moreover, by the externalities it generates, is seen as a service whose optimal supply requires public financing or provision. In Brazil, as in other countries, is constitutionally established as responsibility of states and municipalities. The demand of voters for education, however, is little known. This paper seeks to fill this gap by estimating the impact of a change in municipal spending on basic education in the reelection chances of a mayor. For that, as exogenous variation uses the deployment of federal transfers from the Fund for the Maintenance and Development of Fundamental Education and Valorization of Teachers (FUNDEF) and The Fund for the Maintenance and Development of Basic Education and Enhancement of Education Professionals (FUNDEB) in 1998 and 2007, respectively. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

MATHEUS ASSUNÇÃO; FERNANDA ESTEVAN. Do voters reward politicians for education expenditures?. Rev. Bras. Econ., v. 76, n. 1, p. 10-29, 2022-07-08. (19/25033-5, 17/50134-4, 14/20307-6, 15/21640-3, 15/16095-6)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

ASSUNÇÃO, Matheus de Mello de. Do people vote for education? evidence from Brazilian municipal elections. 2016. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade (FEA/SBD) São Paulo.