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Review Of "State Schooling And Ethnic Identity: The Politics Of A Tibetan Neidi Secondary School" By Zhiyong Zhu, Vilma Seeberg
Review Of "State Schooling And Ethnic Identity: The Politics Of A Tibetan Neidi Secondary School" By Zhiyong Zhu, Vilma Seeberg
Vilma Seeberg
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Relying On The Private Sector: The Income Distribution And Public Investments In The Poor, Katrina Kosec
Relying On The Private Sector: The Income Distribution And Public Investments In The Poor, Katrina Kosec
Katrina Kosec
What drives governments with similar revenues to provide very different amounts of goods with private sector substitutes? Education is a prime example. I use exogenous shocks to Brazilian municipalities' revenue during 1995-2008 generated by non-linearities in federal transfer laws to demonstrate two things. First, municipalities with higher income inequality or higher median income allocate less of a revenue shock to education and are less likely to expand public school enrollment. They are more likely to invest in public infrastructure that is broadly enjoyed, like parks and roads, or to save the shock. Second, I find no evidence that the quality …