Politics and preschool : the political economy of investment in pre-primary education (English)

What drives governments with similar revenues to publicly provide very different amounts of goods for which private substitutes are available? Key examples are education and health care. This paper compares spending by Brazilian municipalities on pre-primary education -- a good that is also provided privately -- with spending on public infrastructure like parks and roads, which lacks private substitutes. Panel data from 1995-2008 reveal how the distribution...
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Kosec,Katrina L..

Politics and preschool : the political economy of investment in pre-primary education (English). Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 5647 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/942241468091776922

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