How efficient is public spending in education?

How Efficient; Is Current; Infrastructure Spending and Pricing?

Congested highways and airports, collapsing bridges, deteriorating roads, periodic water shortages, and suspect waste disposal facilities bear silent witness that the infrastructure of our nation, currently valued at close to $1 trillion, is inadequate. To shore up America’s foundations, many economists and policy analysts have urged the federal government to increase spending substantially. Th...

Electoral Incentives and Public Education Spending: Evidence from Brazil

This paper provides evidence against the argument that the rich prevent the poor from obtaining public education in unequal developing democracies. In Brazilian municipalities with low median incomes, voters are significantly less likely to reelect incumbent candidates from parties that increased the number of local public primary schools during their terms. This is not true for municipalities ...

Public spending on health care: how are different criteria related?

At least nine different criteria are relevant for decisions about public spending for health care. These include economic efficiency criteria (public goods, externalities, catastrophic cost, and cost-effectiveness), ethical reasons (poverty, horizontal and vertical equity, and the rule of rescue), and political considerations (especially demands by the populace). Sometimes one criterion should ...

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

Who is who in spending the Hungarian public funds?

We’re developing a Hungarian database and a network map that makes political decisions of public bodies on various alternatives of law-making, granting public procurements, tenders, privatization procedures and EU funds searchable, analyzable and transparent.