RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Long-run Impacts of Intergovernmental Transfers
JF Journal of Human Resources
JO J Hum Resour
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 0917-9064R2
DO 10.3368/jhr.57.3.0917-9064R2
A1 de Carvalho Filho, Irineu
A1 Litschig, Stephan
YR 2020
UL http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2020/05/04/jhr.57.3.0917-9064R2.abstract
AB This paper provides 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 4-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 to 0.10 standard deviation across the entire score distribution of two nationwide exams at the end of the 2000s.