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Long-Run Impacts of Intergovernmental Transfers

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  • Irineu de Carvalho Filho
  • Stephan Litschig

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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.

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  • Irineu de Carvalho Filho & Stephan Litschig, 2022. "Long-Run Impacts of Intergovernmental Transfers," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 57(3), pages 868-917.
    • Handle: RePEc:uwp:jhriss:v:57:y:2022:i:3:p:868-917
    Note: DOI: 10.3368/jhr.57.3.0917-9064R2
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    JEL classification:

    • H40 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - General
    • H72 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Budget and Expenditures
    • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration

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