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“Time-Release” Output Responses To Public Education Expenditures

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  • Atems, Bebonchu
  • Blankenau, William

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This paper argues that output can respond to public education spending in a delayed and persistent manner through human capital accumulation. We refer to this as a “time-release” response, reflecting that the output response grows as students exposed to increased expenditures sequentially enter the labor market. We first develop and calibrate a stochastic overlapping generations model to formalize the propagation of spending shocks over a long time horizon. We then empirically explore this time-release aspect of shocks to government education expenditures on output using US state-level data for the period 1963–2016 and a panel structural vector autoregression methodology. Consistent with the model, our empirical results show that the dynamic response of output to shocks to government education expenditures is positive, significant, and long-lasting.

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  • Atems, Bebonchu & Blankenau, William, 2022. "“Time-Release” Output Responses To Public Education Expenditures," Macroeconomic Dynamics, Cambridge University Press, vol. 26(6), pages 1483-1521, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:macdyn:v:26:y:2022:i:6:p:1483-1521_3
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