Benefit incidence analysis of public education spending in the Philippines for the years 2016 and 2019
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2023-07
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With the recent enactment of two important education laws, namely the Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013 and the Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education of 2017, this paper
tries to investigate the progressiveness of public education spending in the Philippines using benefit incidence analysis (BIA). Following Davoodi et. al.’s BIA methodology and Manasan et. al.’s BIA on Philippine public education spending two decades previous, actual public education expenditures and service utilization at the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels were estimated from national budget accounts along with enrollment rates for both 2016 and 2019. Using the Annual Poverty Incidence Survey (APIS), the enrollment rates at each income decile were then considered to arrive at the distribution of benefits. It was found that in comparing the two time
periods at the national level, primary education spending became less progressive, secondary education spending became more
progressive, and tertiary education spending became less regressive.
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incidence analysis, suits index, education, progressive spending