Eficiência dos gastos públicos na educação: análise dos municípios de Pernambuco

Abstract

Education is and has always been fundamental to the development of any society. Therefore, trying to understand if public spending in this area is being applied correctly or not becomes very important, since having a notion of the quality of public spending, one can guarantee a better efficiency of the allocative function of resources. More specifically, this research seeks to measure the technical efficiency and scale scores of the Basic Education Development Index (IDEB) in the area of education for the municipalities of Pernambuco, that is, it seeks to evaluate the efficiency of public spending on education. municipalities, identifying which are the most and least efficient. To meet the objectives, we used the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model for 133 Pernambuco municipalities for the period 2013-2017. The data showed a large number of efficient municipalities for the state of Pernambuco, that is, obtained their efficiency ratios (E) equal to 1. However, it was found that the richest municipalities are not necessarily always efficient in the use of public resources, while having a lower income level had better input management in some cases.