Do voters vote for education? Evidence from Brazilian municipal elections

• Grant number: 15/16095-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Master's degree
• Start date: October 01, 2015
• End date: December 31, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Economics - Economics of Human Resources
• Principal Investigator: Fernanda Gonçalves de La Fuente Estevan
• Grantee: Matheus de Mello de Assunção
• Supervisor: Thomas Fujiwara
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade (FEA). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Princeton University, United States
• Associated to the scholarship: 14/20307-6 - Do voters vote for education? Evidence from Brazilian municipal elections, BP.MS

Abstract

This research project seeks to provide new evidence 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 Maintenance and Development of Fundamental Education and Valuing of Teacher (FUNDEF) between 1998 and 2000. 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.

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. (15/16095-6, 15/21640-3, 14/20307-6, 19/25033-5, 17/50134-4)