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WP-AD 2014-06
Long-run effects on poverty of public expenditure in education
Hidalgo, M. e Iturbe-Ormaetxe, I.
Año de publicacion: 2014
Palabras clave: public expenditure in education, poverty rate, intergenerational transmission of poverty.
Clasificación JEL: H52, I21, I23, J24, J31
Resumen
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.