TY  - JOUR
T1  - An investigation of causal relationship between public education expenditures and economic growth in Turkiye: Evidence from provincial level analysis
TT  - Türkiye’de kamu eğitim harcamaları ile ekonomik büyüme arasındaki nedensellik ilişkisinin incelenmesi: İl düzeyinde bir analiz
AU  - Çelen, Mustafa
AU  - Çağlayan Akay, Ebru
AU  - Yılmaz, Serdar
PY  - 2025
DA  - June
Y2  - 2025
JF  - ODTÜ Gelişme Dergisi
JO  - METUSD
PB  - Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2980-0870
SP  - 203
EP  - 237
VL  - 52
IS  - 1
LA  - en
AB  - This paper investigates the causal relationship between educational expenditures and economic growth in Turkiye at the provincial level by using annual panel data covering the period 2009-2021. The main finding suggests that the causal relationship between economic growth and public education spending is heterogenous: it varies from one province to the other. Although there is no causal relationship between total and primary and secondary education expenditures and economic growth in a majority of provinces, there is a unidirectional causal relationship between higher education expenditures and economic growth in 41 out of 81 provinces.
KW  - Panel causality
KW  - Public education expenditures
KW  - Provincial level economic growth
KW  - Provincial level public education expenditures
N2  - Bu çalışma, Türkiye’de il düzeyinde kamu eğitim harcamaları ile ekonomik büyüme arasındaki nedensellik ilişkisini, 2009–2021 dönemini kapsayan yıllık panel verileri kullanarak incelemektedir. Temel bulgu, ekonomik büyüme ile kamu eğitim harcamaları arasındaki nedensellik ilişkisinin heterojen olduğunu; bir ilden diğerine değişiklik gösterdiğini ortaya koymaktadır. Toplam kamu eğitim harcamaları, ilköğretim ve ortaöğretim harcamaları ile ekonomik büyüme arasında çoğu ilde bir nedensellik ilişkisi bulunmamakla birlikte, 81 ilin 41’inde yükseköğretim harcamaları ile ekonomik büyüme arasında tek yönlü bir nedensellik ilişkisi gözlemlenmiştir.
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