Brazilian Government Transfer Data

Data set used in experiment to estimate the effects of increased Brazilian government spending on educational attainment, literacy, and poverty rates.

transfer

Format

A data frame with 1787 rows and 9 variables:

.row

integer: row number

state

character: state name

region

character: region name

literate91

numeric: literacy rate of the state in 1991

educ91

numeric: average years in education of the state in 1991

poverty91

numeric: poverty rate of the state in 1991

poverty80

numeric: poverty rate of the state in 1980

educ80

numeric: average years in education of the state in 1980

pop82

integer: population in 1982

Details

See QSS Table 4.12.

References

  • Imai, Kosuke. 2017. Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction. Princeton University Press. URL.

  • Stephan Litschig and Kevin M. Morrison (2013) “The impact of intergovernmental transfers on education outcomes and poverty reduction.” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 206–240. doi = 10.1257/app.5.4.206