Quality public expenditures on municipal education fundamental in Brazil

Quality of municipal public spending on primary education in Brazil. The focus of this paper was to analyze the relationship between municipal public education spending and students' academic achievement, evaluated according to IDEB (Index of Basic Education Development) of 2005. The following...

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Published inRevista de economia política Vol. 32; no. 1; pp. 128 - 141
Main Author Montoya Diaz, Maria Dolores
Format Journal Article
LanguagePortuguese
Published 01.01.2012
Subjects
Academic achievement
Appropriations and expenditures
Brazil
Census
Education
Finance
Mathematics
Political economy
Schools
Students
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Summary:Quality of municipal public spending on primary education in Brazil. The focus of this paper was to analyze the relationship between municipal public education spending and students' academic achievement, evaluated according to IDEB (Index of Basic Education Development) of 2005. The following databases were used: School Census 2005, Brazil Exam (mathematics evaluation applied to students from fourth grade of elementary school) and Finance of Brazil (FINBRA). A multilevel model was estimated and the results suggest that simply increasing the percentage of municipal expenditures on education or the percentage of spending on primary education in relation to municipal expenditures on education do not automatically guarantee improvements in the quality of education. Adapted from the source document.
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ISSN:0101-3157