A RELAÇÃO ENTRE A QUALIDADE DA GESTÃO MUNICIPAL E O DESEMPENHO EDUCACIONAL NO BRASIL

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the quality of municipal management is one of the factors that influence the performance of basic education in Brazil. The results show that there is a positive correlation between the indicators of local administration quality and the average performance of the municipalities in Prova Brasil, even controlling for the municipal fixed effects and education expenditures. In municipal school systems that offer the elementary education, the increase of 1 point in IQIM is reflected in an improvement of 0.06, on average.