期刊
RESOURCES POLICY
卷 70, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2018.05.018
关键词
Public education; Mining taxes; Local governments
Chilean mining municipalities collect mineral tax to compensate for negative externalities, but there is not enough evidence to support that this improves quality of life. Research shows that educational performance in mining municipalities is worse than other areas, despite receiving resource windfalls, and it is unclear if they invest more in public education.
Chilean mining municipalities collect a mineral tax to compensate for the negative externalities associated with resource extraction. Although this implies a positive marginal impact on local finance, there is not enough empirical evidence to support that this improves the quality of life in these communities. This article attempts to bridge this knowledge gap via a unique experimental framework, specifically, the Chilean tax system and a mining law that allows certain municipalities above an exogenous threshold to keep the extra income. We use Regression Discontinuity Design to identify the causal effect on public education indicators and our results are robust and show that in the margin that the educational performance of mining municipalities is worse than that of the counterfactuals. In addition, the evidence suggests that despite the resource windfalls of the mining municipalities, it is not clear if these municipalities invest more resources in public education than other localities.
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