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Long-Run Impacts of Intergovernmental Transfers

Irineu de Carvalho Filho and View ORCID ProfileStephan Litschig
Journal of Human Resources, May 2022, 57 (3) 868-917; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.57.3.0917-9064R2
Irineu de Carvalho Filho
Irineu de Carvalho Filho is a Principal Economist at the Monetary Authority of Singapore.
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Stephan Litschig
Stephan Litschig is Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo ()
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We provide regression discontinuity evidence on long-run impacts of a temporary increase in federal transfers to local governments in Brazil. Revenues and expenditures in treatment communities increased by about 20 percent during a four-year period in the early 1980s. Previously established schooling and literacy gains of school-age cohorts as well as reduced poverty in the community overall as of 1991 are generally attenuated but persist in 2000. Children and adolescents born after the funding boost show gains of about 0.06–0.10 standard deviation across the entire score distribution of two nationwide exams at the end of the 2000s.

JEL Classification:
  • H40
  • H72
  • I21
  • O15
  • Received September 2017.
  • Accepted March 2020.

This open access article is distributed under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0) and is freely available online at: http://jhr.uwpress.org

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Irineu de Carvalho Filho, Stephan Litschig
Journal of Human Resources May 2022, 57 (3) 868-917; DOI: 10.3368/jhr.57.3.0917-9064R2

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Long-Run Impacts of Intergovernmental Transfers
Irineu de Carvalho Filho, Stephan Litschig
Journal of Human Resources May 2022, 57 (3) 868-917; DOI: 10.3368/jhr.57.3.0917-9064R2
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