Does Aid for Education Educate Children? Evidence from Panel Data

Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer

doi:10.1093/wber/lhn003

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“…(), Wolf () and Dreher et al . (), among others, conclude that education spending has no discernible effects on education attainment.…”

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“…One strand of the literature finds that social spending is a weak predictor of improved welfare (e.g. Flug, Spilimbergo, & Wachtenheim, ; Filmer & Pritchett, ; Kim & Moody, ; Dreher, Nunnenkamp, & Thiele, ), whereas other studies contend that social spending does positively impact welfare outcomes of societies (e.g. Bidani & Ravallion, ; Gupta, Verhoeven, & Tiongson, , ; Baldacci, Clements, Gupta, & Cui, ).…”

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Does Social Spending Improve Welfare in Low‐income and Middle‐income Countries?

Haile

Niño‐Zarazúa

2017

J of Intl Development

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Over the past two decades, there has been unprecedented attention to the promotion of human development via government spending in the social sectors as a conditio sine qua non for economic growth and improved aggregate welfare. Yet the existing evidence on the subject remains limited and contested. This paper contributes to the literature by examining the causal effect of government spending on the social sectors (health, education and social protection) on three measures of aggregate welfare: the Human Development Index, the Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index and child mortality rates, using longitudinal data from 55 low-income and middle-income countries from 1990 to 2009. We find strong evidence to support the proposition that government social spending has played a significant role in improving aggregate welfare in the developing world. Our results are fairly robust to, inter alia, the method of estimation, the set of control variables and the use of alternative samples and instruments.

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“…(), Wolf () and Dreher et al . (), among others, conclude that education spending has no discernible effects on education attainment.…”

Section: A Bird's‐eye View Of the Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

Does Social Spending Improve Welfare in Low‐income and Middle‐income Countries?

Haile

Niño‐Zarazúa

2017

J of Intl Development

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“…The International Development Statistics (IDS) provides time series for disbursements of total aid by members of the OECD Development Assistance Committee to low‐income and middle‐income recipient countries . Studies on aid effectiveness such as the present one should preferably use aid disbursements rather than aid commitments (Michaelowa and Weber, ; Dreher et al , ). Commitments often do not lead to actual resource flows to the recipient country, or the actual flow may be considerably delayed.…”

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“…In particular, we pay heed to recent calls for a disaggregated view on aid effectiveness, that is, considering specific outcome variables and accounting for the heterogeneity of aid (e.g. Harms and Lutz, ; Mavrotas and Ouattara, ; Dreher et al , ).…”

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Does Foreign Aid Reduce Energy and Carbon Intensities of Developing Economies?

Kretschmer

Hübler

Nunnenkamp

2011

J of Intl Development

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Advanced OECD countries are widely held responsible for containing global carbon emissions by providing financial and technical support to developing economies where emissions are increasing most rapidly. It is open to question, however, whether more generous official development assistance would help fight climate change effectively. Empirical evidence on the effects of foreign aid on energy and carbon emission intensities in recipient countries hardly exists. We contribute to closing this gap by considering energy use and carbon emissions as dependent climate‐related variables and the volume and structure of aid as possible determinants. In particular, we assessed the impact of aid that donors classify to be specifically related to energy issues. We performed dynamic panel Generalised Method of Moments and Least Squares Dummy Variable Corrected estimations. We found that aid tends to be effective in reducing the energy intensity of GDP in recipient countries. All the same, the carbon intensity of energy use is hardly affected. Scaling up aid efforts would thus be insufficient to fight climate change beyond improving energy efficiency. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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“…A contrary view of the impact of foreign aid is that it can promote democracy in important respects. For example, it might create preconditions for democratization by fostering economic and social development, especially improvements in education (Dreher et al, 2008;Christensen et al, 2011;Clemens et al, 2012). Aid might also be *Corresponding author.…”

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