We use new manufacturing GDP time series to examine the industrialization in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia … industrialization had overlooked. Rather than providing a single explanation of how specific shocks or policies shaped the … industrialization of the region, our argument is that the timing of the industrial take off was linked to initial conditions, while …

Classic Big Push industrialization envisions state planners coordinating economic activity to internalize a range of …

American metropolitan areas with comparable geographic units in Brazil, China and India. Both Gibrat's Law and Zipf's Law seem … to hold as well in Brazil as in the U.S., but China and India look quite different. In Brazil and China, the implications …

studying the effects of immigration to Brazil during the Age of Mass Migration on its agricultural sector in 1920. This context … informative of developing countries' experience because Brazil in this period was unique among major migrant destinations as a low … interaction of aggregate immigrant inflows and the expansion of Brazil's railway network, we find that a greater immigrant share …

novel survey to collect program-level information on quality determinants and average outcomes for Brazil, Colombia …. We also collect administrative, student-level data on higher education and formal employment for SCP students in Brazil … market outcomes while others may hinder them. Two practices predict improvements in all labor market outcomes in Brazil and …