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Financing local development: Quasi-experimental evidence from municipalities in Brazil, 1980-1991 Litschig, Stephan Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa intergovernmental grants decentralization economic development Labour, Public, Development and Health Economics This paper uses a regression discontinuity design to estimate the impact of additional unrestricted grant financing on local public spending, public service provision, schooling, literacy, and income at the community (municipio) level in Brazil. Additional transfers increased local public spending per capita by about 20% with no evidence of crowding out own revenue or other revenue sources. The additional local spending increased schooling per capita by about 7% and literacy rates by about 4 percentage points. The implied marginal cost of schooling -accounting for corruption and other leakages- amounts to about US$ 126, which turns out to be similar to the average cost of schooling in Brazil in the early 1980s. In line with the effect on human capital, the poverty rate was reduced by about 4 percentage points, while income per capita gains were positive but not statistically significant. Results also suggest that additional public spending had stronger effects on schooling and literacy in less developed parts of Brazil, while poverty reduction was evenly spread across the country. 2017-07-26T10:50:08Z 2017-07-26T10:50:08Z 2008-08-01 2017-07-23T02:12:24Z info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper https://econ-papers.upf.edu/ca/paper.php?id=1142 http://hdl.handle.net/10230/4576 eng Economics and Business Working Papers Series; 1142 L'accés als continguts d'aquest document queda condicionat a l'acceptació de les condicions d'ús establertes per la següent llicència Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess application/pdf application/pdf