Déterminants des politiques publiques d’allocation des ressources éducatives au primaire : une analyse en économétrie spatiale pour le cas de la région de l’Ouest Cameroun

ANEGUE, Jean De Dieu (2024): Déterminants des politiques publiques d’allocation des ressources éducatives au primaire : une analyse en économétrie spatiale pour le cas de la région de l’Ouest Cameroun.

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to analyze the determinants of public decision-making regarding the allocation of primary education resources in the West Region. Using a Spatial Autoregressive Probit (SAR Probit) model, the results reveal two main findings. First, public decisions on the allocation of primary education resources exhibit spatial dependence. Second, these decisions are not influenced by the demand for education, but rather by political factors, the incidence of monetary poverty, and the availability of existing material educational resources. Based on these results, the main recommendation is that public authorities should consider equity-based criteria such as effective demand for education (population size or school-age population) and the socio-economic characteristics of populations in each district when designing and planning education policies. This approach would help ensure universal access to quality education, as targeted by the 2020–2030 National Development Strategy.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• English Title: Determinants of public policies for the allocation of primary education resources: A spatial econometric analysis for the case of the West region of Cameroon
• Language: French
• Keywords: Public Decision of allocation, Educational Resources, Probit SAR model
• Subjects: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C2 - Single Equation Models ; Single Variables > C21 - Cross-Sectional Models ; Spatial Models ; Treatment Effect Models ; Quantile Regressions; I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education and Research Institutions > I24 - Education and Inequality; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development > O15 - Human Resources ; Human Development ; Income Distribution ; Migration

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