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Long-run effects on poverty of public expenditure in education

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  • Marisa Hidalgo Hidalgo

    (Universidad de Alicante)

  • Iñigo Iturbe-Ormaetxe Kortajarene

    (Universidad de Alicante)

Abstract

Household characteristics may have long-run effects on individual outcomes in adulthood. For instance, individuals who lived when young in households experiencing financial problems are more likely to be poor when adults. Public intervention in education is one of the most important means by which governments try to reduce these effects and to promote equality of opportunity. The objective of this paper is to check whether public expenditure in education has an effect in reducing the probability of being poor when adult, and to what extent. Our main finding is that public expenditure in primary education has a strong long-run effect on reducing incidence of poverty in adulthood. We also find that this effect is concentrated mainly among individuals who have parents with a low level of education.

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  • Marisa Hidalgo Hidalgo & Iñigo Iturbe-Ormaetxe Kortajarene, 2014. "Long-run effects on poverty of public expenditure in education," Working Papers. Serie AD 2014-06, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie).
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    Keywords

    public expenditure in education; poverty rate; intergenerational transmission of poverty.;
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    JEL classification:

    • H52 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Education
    • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
    • I23 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Higher Education; Research Institutions
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials

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