TY - JOUR T1 - Long-Run Impacts of Intergovernmental Transfers JF - Journal of Human Resources JO - J Hum Resour SP - 868 LP - 917 DO - 10.3368/jhr.57.3.0917-9064R2 VL - 57 IS - 3 AU - Irineu de Carvalho Filho AU - Stephan Litschig Y1 - 2022/05/01 UR - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/57/3/868.abstract N2 - 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. ER -