Local Government Performance: Evaluating Efficiency, Efficacy, and Effectiveness at the Basic Education Level

Abstract

Access to public education for many specialists is the most potent policy toward achieving an equitable and fair society. To accomplish this challenging goal, there must exist an efficient and effective public system. Therefore, to support and expand the issue, we have developed a study that focuses on the impacts that socioeconomic conditions have on efficiency and efficacy at the basic education level in municipalities from the state of São Paulo, Brazil. In order to achieve our main goal, we performed a descriptive statistical analysis, a correlation analysis, and three multiple linear regressions. First, the descriptive study exhibited public education inequality between the municipalities. Following this, the correlation analysis pointed out a positive and significant correlation amongst socioeconomic conditions as well as a more efficient and effective model. Finally, three multiple linear regressions demonstrate a positive and significant impact concerning the economic status between the social condition and the efficiency, efficacy, and effectiveness in public schools run by municipal authorities. Therefore, this paper generates an advance toward local government performance studies, through the analysis of possible impacts concerning socioeconomic conditions in the 3Es at the basic education level.

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“…In Latin America, subnational government performance has been assessed in terms of tax collection Gomes, 2015, Petrovsky andAvellaneda, 2014); financial indicators (Avellaneda 2009b, Gomes et al, 2013; health care scores (Dantas et al, 2017, Olvera and Avellaneda, 2019, Ferraresi, 2021, De Oliveira et al, 2016, Paschoalotto et al, 2018, Ribeiro et al, 2018, Russo et al, 2019, Vargas et al, 2015; electricity and water services, educational achievements (Avellaneda, 2009a, Caetano et al 2017, Queiroz et al, 2020, Rosa et al, 2019, Paschoalotto et al, 2020Santos et al, 2020); and environmental indicators (Dantas et al, 2017, De la Riva 2021.…”

“…Among the contextual drivers, several studies have tested the performance effects of socio-demographic factors (e.g., Avellaneda, 2012;Paschoalotto et al, 2020;Puppim de Oliveira, 2017;Rosa et al, 2019). Some of the existing works suggest that population size, rurality, violence, and population density matter for social service delivery (Avellaneda 2009a, 2009b, Avellaneda and Gomes, 2015, Ferraz et al, 2012, Puppim de Oliveira, 2017, Santos et al, 2020, Zucco, 2013, Queiroz et al, 2020.…”

“…In the Brazilian public health sector, for example, studies report the background of health workforce is negatively correlated with child and infant mortality rate (Dantas et al, 2017, De Oliveira et al, 2016, Moosa et al, 2017, Paschoalotto et al, 2020, Paschoalotto et al, 2018, Vargas et al, 2015. The positive impact of leaders' education and experience on health indicators (e.g., primary health care and infant mortality rate) seems greater in small municipalities (Moosa et al, 2017, Olvera and Avellaneda, 2019, Russo et al, 2019.…”

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Performance of Subnational Governments in the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Analysis of the Public and Private Health Services in Brazil

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