Education Attainment in Brazil: The Experience of FUNDEF. OECD Economics Department Working Papers No. 424

Autor/inn/en	de Mello, Luiz; Hoppe, Mombert
Institution	Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
Titel	Education Attainment in Brazil: The Experience of FUNDEF. OECD Economics Department Working Papers No. 424
Quelle	(2005), (27 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
DOI	10.1787/556807485718
Schlagwörter	Municipalities; Foreign Countries; Educational Attainment; Enrollment Rate; Educational Finance; Revenue Sharing; Administrative Organization; Brazil + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Magistrat; Ausland; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Bildungsfonds; Finanzausgleich; Brasilien
Abstract	For many years, Brazil lagged behind other middle-income countries in terms of school enrolment rates. But since 1998 policies have aimed at bridging this gap, in particular, with the implementation of FUNDEF, a fund for financing sub-national spending on primary and lower-secondary education. Using state- and municipality-level data during 1991-2002, this paper shows that FUNDEF played a key role in the increase in enrolment rates over the period, particularly in small municipalities, which rely more heavily on transfers from higher levels of government as a source of revenue. These findings underscore the importance of FUNDEF in eliminating supply constraints to the improvement of education attainment. Enrolment rates are now nearly universal for primary and lower-secondary education. Emphasis should therefore be placed on policies to improve the quality of services and to remove supply constraints to the expansion of enrolment in upper-secondary and tertiary education. (Contains 6 tables and 6 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10