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| Author(s): |
Luiz Felipe Leite Estanislau do Amaral
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade (FEA/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2011-05-12 |
| Examining board members: |
Naercio Aquino Menezes Filho;
Ricardo de Abreu Madeira;
Elaine Toldo Pazello
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| Advisor: | Naercio Aquino Menezes Filho |
| Abstract | |
The objective of this dissertation is to properly estimate the impact of public schooling expenditures over school performance. This issue is not yet clear dealt in the specialized literature: facing an apparent lack of relationship between the two variables, some authors argue that this is a result of the incentive structure of public schooling systems while others claim that this is the result of an empirical identification problem, specifically of endogeneity of expenditures. The present research seeks to use, for Brazil, a schooling finance reform (the transition from FUNDEF to FUNDEB) as an instrument for municipalities expenditures in primary education. FUNDEF and FUNDEB redistribution funds that must be necessarily have its resources employed on education. The first one functioned between 1996 and 2006 and was restricted to primary education while the second one started in 2007 and encompasses basic education. It is argued that such transition can be taken as exogenous and, thus, instrumental variables techniques are used to obtain the impacts of increases on per pupil expenditures on primary education on the standardized scores of Prova Brasil, for both fourth and eighth grades. The estimates obtained are in general significant, but not big: a thousand reais increase in expenditures per pupil on primary education increases on average school performance in something between 25% and 90% of a standard deviation. There is also light evidence that there are omitted variables positively related to expenditures. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 08/07866-5 - THE DETERMINANTS OF EDUCATIONAL EXPENDITURES AND ITS IMPACTS ON SCHOOLING QUALITY |
| Grantee: | Luiz Felipe Leite Estanislau do Amaral |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |