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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"education spending"”.
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The economic impact of education spending : evidence from self-employed households
… owners. Households respond to the increase in education spending by downsizing business production and exiting self-employment. They increase medical and restaurant expenditures and cut back on mortgage payments. While education spending hampers business survival, self-employed parents become …
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From the Streets to the Classrooms: The Politics of Education Spending in Mexico
… the political determinants of government spending across different levels of education. What are the political motivations that drive budgetary decisions on primary, secondary, and tertiary education? Who are the beneficiaries of these appropriations? Why are they capable of influencing …
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Building a Model to Test the Relationship Between Higher Education Spending and Student Debt
… examine institutional expenditures within higher education and their possible relationship to student debt through a fixed-effects analysis that used data across a six-year period. This study examined public comprehensive master's level institutions as defined by the Carnegie Classification …
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Public education spending in the German Länder: adjustment to demographic shocks, politics, and cost efficiency
… I examine three major aspects of Germany's education system from an empirical public finance perspective. First, I analyse the effects of strong demographic shifts by considering how the East German Länder responded to the rather dramatic decline in the number of students in primary schools …
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The Effects of Fiscal Decentralization on Health and Education Spending and Outcomes: Evidence from Ethiopia
… of fiscal decentralization on woreda level spending and local health and education outcomes in the Amhara region of Ethiopia. Using fiscal decentralization theory, we predict that local conditions will affect future local spending patterns because local governments possess superior …
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The Effects of Fiscal Decentralization on Health and Education Spending and Outcomes: Evidence from Ethiopia
… of fiscal decentralization on woreda level spending and local health and education outcomes in the Amhara region of Ethiopia. Using fiscal decentralization theory, we predict that local conditions will affect future local spending patterns because local governments possess superior …
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The Public Benefits of Higher Education: Examining the Relationship Between State Spending on Higher Education and the Formation of Human Capital
… the literature on the economic value of higher education by examining the extent to which a set of independent variables, including two measures of state spending on higher education predict the formation of human capital. The findings suggest that, in most states, increases in state spending …
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An econometric study of public policy applied to renewable energy, economic growth and taxation
… chapter investigates the link between public education expenditures and long term economic growth in the context of countries' institutional quality, while the third chapter focuses on the impact of the 2012 Kansas tax reform on state employment across industries. The first essay, co-authored …
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Clarifying Decision Making Processes: Tools for Interdependency Modeling
… that estimates the distribution of Government education spending in the US across income deciles. My dataset informs existing Distributional National Accounts (DINA), which are a primary measure of income inequality in the US (Piketty et al., 2018). My estimate shows Government education …
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Essays in Municipal Finance
… unclear whether these policies prevent excessive spending or constrain efficient investment in public goods and services. Using referendum data from Massachusetts, I find that easing property tax limits leads to an increase in educational spending and government salaries, and a decrease in pension …
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Essays in Public Education
… incentives in the provision of public education, (2) human capital production functions in economic modeling, (3) how public education spending may impact income inequality -- both positively and negatively, (4) the effect on public education spending of changes in the college wage …
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The nexus between social spending and economic growth in South Africa: a cointegration approach
… Keynesian theory which proposes that government spending stimulates economic growth. Several empirical studies testing the Keynesian proposition are generally affirmative but these studies do not tell us how disaggregated and particular components of government spending affect economic growth. …
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Immigrant inflows and public goods provision
… Hispanic immigrant inflows affect K-12 public education finance in the US. I first document the long-run trend of mean household income and average number of children per household for Hispanic immigrant households relative to native households. An accounting calculation suggests that the tax …
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Efectos del espacio fiscal en el gasto público educativo antes y después de la crisis financiera: estudio en América Latina y Europa
… the relationship between fiscal space and public spending on education, in countries belonging to Latin America and Europe, during normal times and periods of economic stress. To this end, it is proposed to assess the availability of fiscal space before and after a crisis. Then, a comparison is …
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Productive and unproductive debt spending of microloans taken by urban borrowers (Johannesburg)
… of the loan. Weller (2007) defined productive spending as money spent on education and home improvement and consumptive spending as money used for purchasing goods, services or cars. The purpose of this research is to identify whether borrowers of microloans within the Johannesburg region of …
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Determinantes del acceso y uso de la inclusión financiera en el área urbana en países de la Comunidad Andina. Periodo 2005-2018.
… GDP per capita, private credit registries, education spending and population density have a positive relationship to increase financial inclusion, with the credit information index being, GDP per capita and spending on education the variables that had the greatest impact. On the other hand, …
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Impact of debt relief on fiscal allocation to social priority sectors and response of social indicators in the HIPCs : a case study of Tanzania
… initiatives were expected to increase public spending in social priority sectors and ultimately reduce poverty incidence in the HIPC-s. This study assesses, firstly whether the debt relief has helped to increase Government spending on education and health sectors in Tanzania and, secondly, …
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Essays on Household Finance and Small Business Credit
… small business owners respond to the increase in education spending by downsizing business production and liquidating the business. These results suggest that business owners’ family financial decisions affect the real economy as business owners struggle to separate business capital demands from …
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The Dynamics of Size, Composition, and Fiscal Authority in Government Expenditures: Examining The Effects of Social Disturbance
… effects of German reunification on government spending. This research tests several hypotheses using data on total spending and six major sub-policy spending categories between 1972 and 2006. First, this study identifies strong evidence of a large upward displacement effect following …
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Essays on Public Education Expenditure, Trade Openness and Economic Growth of India
… of the widely debated issues in the empirical education and trade literature in the context of India.<br/><br/>Chapter 3 examines the impact of public education expenditure and trade openness on economic growth of India using aggregate or country level data. The estimation results indicate that …