Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/223379 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
Texto para discussão No. 668
Publisher: 
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Departamento de Economia, Rio de Janeiro
Abstract: 
We use data from polling stations and public primary schools to estimate the electoral effects of making school quality information available to voters. We exploit the introduction of a school-level accountability system in Brazil that provides, for the first time, information about school quality and exploit variation in schools affected by the policy. We find that incumbent vote shares are 2.14 percentage points higher for schools in the top 20% of our sample's distribution of school quality and 1.54 percentage points lower for schools in the bottom 20% of the distribution. These effects are mostly driven by the unpredicted component of school quality and are larger for more educated voters.
Subjects: 
Elections
Information
Public Service delivery
Education
JEL: 
D72
D83
I25
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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