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Public education and growth: cost-effectiveness of educational policies in developing countries

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  • Rossana Patrón

    (Departmento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República)

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The paper analyses the short and long term effects of education activities for an open economy, linking current costs to future benefits of alternative educational policies. The simulations find that growth effects are higher for those policies that reduce the internal inefficiency of the education sector thus improving the productivity of public expenditure. The analysis has implications for policymakers in developing countries like Uruguay with failing educational systems, as it suggests a relation between cost effectiveness of policies and growth and not a relation between enrolments and growth or between public expenditure in education and growth as it is usually tested in growth regressions.

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  • Rossana Patrón, 2005. "Public education and growth: cost-effectiveness of educational policies in developing countries," Documentos de Trabajo (working papers) 1505, Department of Economics - dECON.
    • Handle: RePEc:ude:wpaper:1505
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    Keywords

    public education; growth; developing countries;
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    JEL classification:

    • I - Health, Education, and Welfare
    • F - International Economics
    • O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth

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