This paper provides evidence of the effect of age at school entry on college admission. We do so by exploiting a number of features in the application process to one of the major flagship universities in Brazil. By comparing applicants with different ages at school entry depending on whether...

This paper examines the effect of hosting the Summer Olympic Games on future country's sport success, computing the total number of Olympic medals in the subsequent Games. In order to control for the endogeneity produced by the hosting decision, we use the Synthetic Control Method (SCM), which...

Small businesses are important to the economic growth of developing countries. The paper evaluates the causal effect of reducing bureaucracy and the tax burden on small manufacturing firms in Brazil. The identification explored the discontinuity among firms next to the eligibility threshold...

Crowdfunding plataforms are becoming increasingly popular, allowing micro-entrepreneurs to raise money to fund projects in various categories. The present study aims to explorar the effects of the JOBS (Jumpstart Our Business Startups, JOBS) Act, which fostered the crowdfunding model by...

The question of whether legalization affects the economic returns of immigrants has been the focus of many empirical studies in the past two decades. Their results have consistently shown that there exists significant wage differences between legal and illegal workers. However, the validity of...

The question of whether legalization affects immigrants' economic returns has been the focus of many empirical studies in recent decades. Results have consistently shown that there are significant wage differences between legal and illegal workers. However, the validity of such findings has been...