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Comparing the Incidence of Taxes and Social Spending in Brazil and the United States
Higgins, Sean - 2017
-off households in Brazil opting out of public services due to quality concerns rather than a result of government effort to make …We perform the first comprehensive fiscal incidence analyses in Brazil and the US, including direct cash and food … in Brazil and the fact that Brazil's highly progressive cash and food transfer programs are small while larger transfer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973687
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Intergenerational Transmission of Lockdown Consequences : Prognosis of the Longer-Run Persistence of COVID-19 in Latin America
Neidhöfer, Guido; Lustig, Nora; Tommasi, Mariano - 2021
The shock on human capital caused by COVID-19 is likely to have long lasting consequences, especially for children of low-educated families. Applying a counterfactual exercise we project the effects of school closures and other lockdown policies on the intergenerational persistence of education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013246748