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Trade Liberalization and Female Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Brazil

Gaddis, Isis; Pieters, Janneke - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

the impact of Brazil's 1987-1994 trade liberalization on labor force participation of women. To identify the causal effect …

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Water Scarcity and Birth Outcomes in the Brazilian Semiarid

Rocha, Rudi; Soares, Rodrigo R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

concentrate on the semiarid region of Northeastern Brazil to highlight the role of water scarcity as a determinant of early life …

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Spillovers from Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: Bolsa Família and Crime in Urban Brazil

Chioda, Laura; Mello, João M. P. de; Soares, Rodrigo R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

combining detailed school characteristics with time and geo-referenced crime information from the city of São Paulo, Brazil, we …

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Corrupting Learning: Evidence from Missing Federal Education Funds in Brazil

Ferraz, Claudio; Finan, Frederico S.; Moreira, Diana B. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

student outcomes. We use data from the auditing of Brazil's local governments to construct objective measures of corruption …

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Intrahousehold Bargaining and the Demand for Consumer Durables in Brazil

Fava, Polato e; Claudia, Ana; Arends-Kuenning, Mary P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

In Brazil, wives do most of the household work. About sixty percent of them also work outside the household, working a … Brazil, despite their potential to save women's time. …

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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis

Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector …

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Living on the Edge: Youth Entry, Career and Exit in Drug-Selling Gangs

Carvalho, Leandro; Soares, Rodrigo R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We use data from a unique survey of members of drug-trafficking gangs in favelas (slums) of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to …

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The Role of "Skill Enhancing Trade" in Brazil: Some Evidence from Microdata

Araújo, Bruno Cesar; Bogliacino, Francesco; Vivarelli, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Brazil was characterised by a marked process of trade liberalisation in the 1990s, resulting in a dramatic increase in …

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Are Wage and Employment Effects Robust to Alternative Minimum Wage Variables?

Lemos, Sara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

A national minimum wage cannot explain variation in wages or employment across regions. Identification of the effect of the minimum wage separately from the effect of other variables on wages or employment requires regional variation. Many minimum wage variables with regional variation have been...

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Household Choices of Child Labor and Schooling: A Simple Model with Application to Brazil

Kruger, Diana; Soares, Rodrigo R.; Berthelon, Matias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

identified. We apply our model to Brazil and use agricultural shocks to local economic activity (coffee and overall agricultural …

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