“…Cardoso and Marenco (2020) studied the relationships between political appointments and municipal performance, and showed the need to develop cut-offs to better capture these links. Several papers have already considered schooling as one of the dimensions to explain municipal and state capacity (Batista, 2015;Batista, Rocha, & Santos, 2020;Cardoso & Marenco, 2019;Marenco, 2017;Marenco & Strohschoen, 2018;Marenco, Stroeschen, & Joner, 2017).…”