Forecasting public education expenditures

Education, Research, and Spending Decisions: Linking revenues and expenditures in public and non-profit higher education

Capital Expenditures for Public Schools

Much has been gained by the EIA. By the deadline, 100% of school systems were in compliance, and no waivers were granted. The percentage of students in temporary classrooms declined from 5.4% to 4.2%. The number of systems with facilities rated “Poor” declined from 16 to 8, and the actual number of “Poor” schools went down from 44 to 20. In the 5-year period examined in this study, the number o...

Public Expenditures and Risk Reduction

Governments in developing countries spend money on goods and services that have an impact on people’s exposure to risk. This paper presents a simple approach to valuing such expenditures from the perspective of risk reduction. There are two types of expenditures: public provision of insurance, such as for health care or crop yields; and policies aimed at other objectives that change peoples’ ri...

Human Capital Accumulation and Endogenous Public Expenditures

In this paper, we present an overlapping generations model where individuals accumulate human capital through formal schooling. We model the role of the public sector in schooling as one of collecting taxes from households and providing inputs to the learning technology. Public expenditures on schools are determined endogenously. Under plausible restrictions, our model's predictions qualitative...

Government Structure and Local Public Expenditures*

The relationship between local government structure and expenditure has received considerable attention, yet there is little consensus on how the features of representative government affect local expenditure decisions. The sole exception is city council size, which has consistently been found to have a positive and significant impact on expenditure. Previous results rely on cross-sectional est...