Title: Evaluating the Impact of School Decentralization on Educational Quality
Abstract: The decentralization of education services from the federal government to the provincial governments was an important component of the major fiscal and structural reforms undertaken in Argentina in the early 1990’s. The theoretical literature is not conclusive about the absolute superiority of either centralization or decentralization in the provision of public services. In this paper, we evaluate empirically the effect of the decentralization of secondary schools on education quality. Our results suggest that, on average, decentralization improved the performance of public school students in test scores. We also assess whether the effect of decentralization depends on province characteristics. We find that the higher the provincial fiscal deficits, the smaller the positive impact of decentralization.
Publication Year: 2002
Publication Date: 2002-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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