A quest for Selective Decentralization. The case of Municipal Schools in Chile

Leonardo Letelier S.; Hector Ormeño C.

doi:10.5209/cgap.85991

A quest for Selective Decentralization. The case of Municipal Schools in Chile

Leonardo Letelier S. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0055-3954
Mr Hector Ormeño Facultad de Gobierno, Universidad de Chile https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6921-6385

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/cgap.85991

Keywords: Economics of Education, Fiscal Decentralization, Local Governments, Public Economics, Local Management

Agencies: Agancia Nacional de Investigación y Desarollo (ANID). FODECYT N., 1171464

Abstract

Under the argument that the existing municipal administration of public schools in Chile is poor and inequitable, a law was passed in 2017 thereby all schools will be handed over to 70 centrally dependent Local Education Services (LES). We hypothesize that a significant number of schools would do better if they remain administered by the municipal level. Based upon a data base between 2014 and 2018, we show that students from schools in fiscally autonomous municipalities exhibit better results in standardized national tests, which supports a quest for a “selective decentralization” model, thereby only bad performed schools are made dependent on LES.

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2023-12-21

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Letelier S. L. y Ormeño C. H. (2023). A quest for Selective Decentralization. The case of Municipal Schools in Chile. Cuadernos de Gobierno y Administración Pública, 10(2), e85991. https://doi.org/10.5209/cgap.85991

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Vol. 10 No. 2 (2023)

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