This paper studies the effects of changes in local public education budgets on individual schooling attainment and … redistributed public education finance across Brazilian municipalities in the late 1990s, as a source of exogenous variation. Using … a cohort-exposure design, I find that, at the individual level, doubling the program-related public education budget led …

education but the other one does not. Because of the high degree of assortative matching according to education on the marriage … male wage inequality on her local marriage market - the more heterogeneous potential future mates are in terms of earnings … one, they have the most to gain from divorcing and going back to the marriage market. This incentive becomes stronger if …

trial led to a reduction in school dropout and early marriage. We see large improvements in girls’ mental health but only in … go against the status quo – to remain in school longer or marry later, for example. This approach may inadvertently …