IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/pal/eurjdr/v26y2014i5p597-613.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Does Aid for Education Attract Foreign Investors? An Empirical Analysis for Latin America

Author

Listed:
  • Julian Donaubauer

    (Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany)

  • Dierk Herzer

    (Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany)

  • Peter Nunnenkamp

    (Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Kiel, Germany)

Abstract

We address the question of whether foreign aid helps attract foreign direct investment (FDI). This could be achieved if well-targeted aid removed critical impediments to higher FDI inflows. In particular, we test the hypothesis that aid for education is an effective means to increase FDI flows to host countries in Latin America where schooling and education appear to be inadequate from the viewpoint of foreign investors. We employ panel data techniques covering 21 Latin American countries over the period from 1984 to 2008. We find that aid for education has a statistically significant positive effect on FDI. This effect is robust to potential outliers, sample selection within Latin America, alternative specifications and different estimation methods.

Suggested Citation

  • Julian Donaubauer & Dierk Herzer & Peter Nunnenkamp, 2014. "Does Aid for Education Attract Foreign Investors? An Empirical Analysis for Latin America," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 26(5), pages 597-613, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:eurjdr:v:26:y:2014:i:5:p:597-613
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ejdr/journal/v26/n5/pdf/ejdr201347a.pdf
    File Function: Link to full text PDF
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ejdr/journal/v26/n5/full/ejdr201347a.html
    File Function: Link to full text HTML
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Donaubauer, Julian & Meyer, Birgit & Nunnenkamp, Peter, 2016. "Aid, Infrastructure, and FDI: Assessing the Transmission Channel with a New Index of Infrastructure," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 78(C), pages 230-245.
    2. Haijun Wang & Hu Yang & Fengya Li & Min Zhang, 2023. "Does foreign aid reduce the country's risk of OFDI? The Chinese experience," International Studies of Economics, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 18(2), pages 238-258, June.
    3. Jean-Louis Combes & Rasmané Ouedraogo & Mr. Sampawende J Tapsoba, 2016. "What Does Aid Do to Fiscal Policy? New Evidence," IMF Working Papers 2016/112, International Monetary Fund.
    4. Olufemi Adewale Aluko, 2020. "The foreign aid–foreign direct investment relationship in Africa: The mediating role of institutional quality and financial development," Economic Affairs, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 40(1), pages 77-84, February.
    5. Narayan Sethi & Purna Chandra Padhan & Devi Prasad Dash, 2024. "When Is Aid Credible in the Emerging Asian economies? An Empirical Re-assessment from the Perspective of Economic Growth," Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Springer;Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), vol. 15(2), pages 7331-7357, June.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:eurjdr:v:26:y:2014:i:5:p:597-613. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.