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Teenage motherhood, education, and labor market outcomes of the mother : evidence from Brazilian data
Narita, Renata Del Tedesco; Diaz, Maria Dolores Montoya - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 17 (2016) 2, pp. 238-252
This paper studies the effects of teenage motherhood on later educational and labor market achievement of the mothers. We construct a pseudo panel from the Brazilian Household Surveys (the 1992-2004 PNADs) and from the Health Ministry data (DATASUS 1981-1992) by state of birth and cohort. We...
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Assessing the benefits of robbery reduction : the case of a large Brazilian city
Andre, Diego de Maria; Carvalho Júnior, José Raimundo … - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 20 (2019) 1, pp. 44-72
Brazil. We develop a structural choice model that nests a process of contingent valuation among non-degenerate lotteries and …
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Social protection and COVID-19 : evaluation of regional impacts of the emergency aid policy in Brazil
Rosa, Prisciane Raupp da; Fochezatto, Adelar; … - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 22 (2021) 3, pp. 239-250
The new Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), which began in late 2019 in China, lead to a health and economic crisis of significant proportions. The decrease in economic activity in order to prevent further spread of the disease affected all economic sectors, resulting in the unprecedented loss of...
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Labor pooling as an agglomeration factor : evidence from the Brazilian Northeast in the 2002-2014 period
Almeida, Edilberto Tiago de; Rocha, Roberta Moraes - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 19 (2018) 2, pp. 236-250
This is a pioneering study of Brazil of the importance of labor pooling to explain industrial agglomeration in the … Northeast of Brazil, employing firm-level microdata. We applied the theoretical model proposed by Krugman (1991) (labor market …
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Spatial income inequality in Brazil, 1872-2000
Reis, Eustáquio José - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 15 (2014) 2, pp. 119-140
The paper provides historical perspectives on spatial economic inequalities in Brazil making use of a database on … income per capita and labor productivity. The remaining of the paper estimates econometric models of growth convergence for …, by enlarging the model to take account of the long run determinants of spatial growth convergence. Empirical results …
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The relative importance of total factor productivity and factors of production in income per worker : evidence from the Brazilian states
Figueirêdo, Lizia de; Nakabashi, Luciano - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 17 (2016) 2, pp. 159-175
Income per worker gap in different regions of Brazil is stunning. To assess the relative importance of factor of …
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Poverty, population growth and agglomeration effects in all Brazil cities
Marques, André de Mattos - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 24 (2023) 2, pp. 249-263
in Brazil and exploring a rich spatial dataset for 5,564 Brazilian cities observed between 1991 and 2010. The large …. Originality/value Data for cities in Brazil possess unique characteristics such as spatial autocorrelation and endogeneity …
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Do conditional cash transfers reduce household vulnerability? : evidence from PROGRESA-Oportunidades in the 2000s
Uchiyama, Naoko - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 20 (2019) 2, pp. 73-91
A number of researchers and policymakers have revealed the short- and medium-term impacts of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs; however, accumulation of full-scale evaluations of their long-term impact is ongoing. To contribute to filling the gap, this study empirically examines the...
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The impacts of climate change on agricultural production, land use and economy of the Legal Amazon region between 2030 and 2049
Tanure, Tarik Marques Do Prado; Nobuhiko Miyajima, Diego; … - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 21 (2020) 1, pp. 73-90
Global warming and climate impact on agricultural output, land use and food production. This paper seeks to verify the economic impacts of climate change in the Legal Amazon region, especially on agricultural production, land use, GDP and job creation. We employ the Computable General...
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The Zipf's law and the effects of free trade : the case of Guatemala
Aragón, Jorge Alberto Orellana; Queiroz, Vívian dos Santos - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 15 (2014) 1, pp. 82-99
The aim of this study is to investigate the impacts of trade policy changes on the order of the size of cities and economic growth of Guatemala between 1921 and 2002. The Pareto coefficient was estimated and an index was used to measure the degree of urban concentration. Finally, a model of the...
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