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Implications of Brazilian institutional guidelines on educational efficiency

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  • Nascimento, Marcus Gerardus L.
  • Becker, Kalinca L.
  • Mendonça, Mario Jorge

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This paper investigates the relation between inefficiency in the Brazilian education system and municipal wealth, discussing how the current legislation possibly influences it. To that end, we apply a stochastic frontier model that accommodates covariates in the asymmetric error component to analyze the impact of per capita GDP on inefficiency. This methodology is applied to a data set on the Rio Grande do Sul municipalities for the years 2007 and 2017. The results indicate a positive effect, suggesting that richer municipalities are less efficient in allocating their resources.

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  • Nascimento, Marcus Gerardus L. & Becker, Kalinca L. & Mendonça, Mario Jorge, 2020. "Implications of Brazilian institutional guidelines on educational efficiency," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 123309, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
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    • I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
    • H75 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Government: Health, Education, and Welfare
    • D61 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis
    • C11 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Bayesian Analysis: General

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