first piece of evidence on the causal effect of illegality on systemic violence. Brazil has historically been the main world …

particular regions of Brazil in the late 19th and early 20th century. We show that municipalities that received settlements …

This paper uses a unique new data set on nearly a thousand manufacturing firms in Brazil and India to investigate the … education. The econometric evidence documents a strong relationship between ICT capital and productivity in both countries, even …

Climate change has increased rainfall uncertainty, leading to greater production risks in agriculture. We examine the … droughts, and are consequently unable to cope fully with the adverse agricultural productivity shock. Our findings can be …

-sector neoclassical framework with agriculture and non-agriculture, we derive the productivity-adjusted aggregate labor income share in … terms of the agricultural productivity gap, and the labor income share in non-agriculture and value-added factor shares. We … theory-based adjustment to our data, the average values for the aggregate and agricultural productivity-adjusted labor income …

induced by changes in wind across years, I show that higher levels of pollution lead to decreased agricultural productivity …, with large changes in productivity being common. The negative effects of pollution are larger in areas growing more labor …-intensive crops, indicating that the pollution works at least partly through direct effects on labor productivity. Finally, combining …

transfer program intended on reducing school dropout rates among children of poor households in Brazil. We show that while this …

Military Polices in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, in the context of the IGESP program. The IGESP is based on the …