Enrollment and quality levels of Colombia's public basic education : has fiscal decentralization improved them?

Number: 
747
Published: 
Classification JEL: 
H41, H71, H77, I22, I38
Keywords: 
Human capital agglomeration, Social returns, Private returns, Externalities, Uncertainty, Fiscal policy

This paper provides empirical evidence of the impact of fiscal decentralization on Colombia's public basic education. Based on the social and economic data available for 1,003 municipalities and 13,670 public schools, for the last decade, we confirmed tha