Transferências da Lei Robin Hood, comportamento fiscal e desenvolvimento socioeconômico nos municípios mineiros

Abstract

Intergovernmental transfers have been an important tool to remedy the fiscal gap between revenues and public service offerings by municipalities. In this sense, the state of Minas Gerais has used the “Robin Hood Law” to promote a more equitable distribution of the amounts transferred. This paper’s main objective is to investigate whether receiving resources from the “Robin Hood Law” - by the specific penitentiary criteria – does, or does not, affects fiscal effort and socioeconomic development of Minas Gerais municipalities. The paper aims to investigate such effects on the fiscal effort and socioeconomic development of Minas Gerais municipalities with panel data models for the years 2011 to 2016. The results demonstrate that the Robin Hood Law - for the criterion of municipalities that host prison units - has provided an improvement in the fiscal effort of the municipalities and significant improvements in the socioeconomic development of the municipalities in Minas Gerais.