Aldo Musacchio|André Martínez Fritscher|Martina Viarengo
Colonial Institutions, Trade Shocks, and the Diffusion of Elementary Education in Brazil, 1889–1930
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
study initial expansion public schooling across brazilian states 18891930 develop alternative explanation colonial institutions may affect provision public goods long run find states exported commodities undergoing international booms 1889 1930 significantly larger export tax revenues could spend education states lagged behind yet positive effect commodity booms education expenditures muted states either slaves abolition cultivated cotton colonial times