Empirical studies have been unable to provide a consistent answer regarding the long-run relationship between government education expenditures and percapita output growth. In this paper, we develop a simple endogenous growth model whereby growth is a function of both government education expenditures and taxation. Using pooled data from 1960 to 2000 for 83 countries, we test our growth equation and find that imposing the government budget constraint is imperative when estimating the relationship between expenditures and growth. Furthermore, we find a robust positive relationship between education expenditures and growth for rich countries when the method of finance is considered but no significant relationship for poor and middle-income countries.
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