Determinants of public education spending in 21 OECD democracies, 1980-2001

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Series Details Vol.14, No.4, June 2007, p582-610
Publication Date June 2007
ISSN 1350-1763
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This paper focuses on the analysis of determinants of public education spending in OECD countries. It starts out by reviewing and replicating the model presented by Castles (1989, 1998), finding that only a few of his explanatory variables remain significant in a pooled time-series framework. I present an alternative model that contains socio-economic, political, and institutional variables: the level of economic development, the magnitude of demographic demand, the constitutional veto structure, the level of public social expenditures, the degree of tax-revenue decentralization as well as government participation of conservative parties.

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