. Second, we show that authors who publish in these journals are more likely to receive a positive evaluation when (randomly …

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

, Brazil and Uruguay, relying on high quality matched employer-employee administrative data. Downward nominal wage rigidities … are more important in Uruguay, while wage indexation is dominant in Brazil. Two regime changes are observed during the … more pronounced; and (ii) in Brazil, the introduction of inflation targeting by the Central Bank in 1999 shifts the focal …

find that labor market conditions have a strong effect on homicides. We exploit the 1990s trade liberalization in Brazil as …

unemployment insurance on unemployment duration in Brazil, where we find strong evidence of manipulation at eligibility cutoffs …