Electoral impacts of uncovering public school quality: Evidence from Brazilian municipalities

Firpo, Sérgio; Pieri, Renan Gomes de; Souza, André Portela

doi:10.1016/j.econ.2016.07.003

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“…The setting of government spending in Brazilian municipalities has been used by other recent papers, such as Ferraz and Finan (, ), Caselli and Michaels (), Brollo et al. (), Litschig and Morrison (), and more closely related to this paper, Firpo, Pieri, and Souza ().…”

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Poverty and the Political Economy of Public Education Spending: Evidence From Brazil

Bursztyn

2016

Journal of the European Economic Association

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A large body of literature has emphasized the elite capture of democratic institutions as the explanation for the low levels of spending on public education in many low‐income democracies. This paper provides an alternative to that longstanding hypothesis. Motivated by new cross‐country facts and evidence from Brazilian municipalities, we hypothesize that many democratic developing countries might invest less in public education spending because poor decisive voters prefer the government to allocate resources elsewhere. One possible explanation is that low‐income voters could instead favor redistributive programs that increase their incomes in the short run, such as cash transfers. To test for this possibility, we design and implement an experimental survey and an incentivized choice experiment in Brazil. The findings from both interventions support our hypothesis.

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Poverty and the Political Economy of Public Education Spending: Evidence From Brazil

Bursztyn

2016

Journal of the European Economic Association

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“…Gonçalves and França (2013) obtained some evidence that Fundef resources, in general, increased the efficiency of municipal school administration. This improvement may be due to a greater commitment of local managers to the management of resources and the supply of quality education, since the results are directly absorbed and observed by the municipality's population, and may influence the elections: Firpo et al (2017) showed that improving the municipal Basic Education Development Index (Ideb) increases the mayor's reelection chances.…”

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“…Moreover, if a municipality improves its educational practices and results, it consequently becomes a comparison model for the population of the surrounding municipalities. This may encourage managers in these municipalities to also work to improve their practices and outcomes through imitation or competition because otherwise they may lose students or influence election results (Firpo, Pieri, & Souza, 2017; Ghosh, 2010; Misra, Grimes, & Rogers, 2012).…”

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An analysis of Fundeb's contribution to the quality of public education in Brazilian municipalities

Becker

2022

Review Development Economics

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This study analyzed the effect of the Fund for the Maintenance and Development of Basic Education and for the Appreciation of Education Professionals (Fundeb) on the National System of Basic Education Assessment (Saeb) results of Brazilian municipalities by estimating a spatial panel model with information from 2007 and 2017, which include the 10 years of the fund's implementation. The results indicated that the 10% increase in the Fundeb amount per student received by the municipality raised the Saeb score by approximately one point. Furthermore, the increase in the fund's value in neighboring municipalities contributed to increasing the municipality's Saeb score by approximately three points. These results are evidence in favor of the hypothesis that Fundeb has encouraged the management and adoption of good practices in municipal education, which influence the decisions and behavior of the neighboring municipalities' managers to also improve their practices and results.

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“…However, unlike in Brazil, public schools in England have a governing board responsible for hiring and setting principals' wages. Firpo et al (2016) finds that the re-election probability of mayors in Brazil depends on how the schools under their administration are ranked according to an index created to assess the quality of public schools.…”

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Information, Market Incentives, and Student Performance

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We use a discontinuity on the test score disclosure rule for the National Secondary Education Examination in Brazil to test whether test score disclosure affects student performance in public and private schools. We find that the impact of test score disclosure on student performance differs between public and private schools. Our results suggest that this difference is driven by differences in the market incentives faced by these two types of school.

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Electoral impacts of uncovering public school quality: Evidence from Brazilian municipalities

Cited by 11 publications

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Poverty and the Political Economy of Public Education Spending: Evidence From Brazil

Poverty and the Political Economy of Public Education Spending: Evidence From Brazil

An analysis of Fundeb's contribution to the quality of public education in Brazilian municipalities

Information, Market Incentives, and Student Performance

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