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

Número: 
747
Publicado: 
Clasificación JEL: 
H41, H71, H77, I22, I38
Palabras clave: 
Public Goods, Local Taxation, Intergovernmental Relations, Education Expenditures

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