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Local Electoral Incentives and Decentralized Program Performance
de Janvry, Alain - 2010
transfer program intended on reducing school dropout rates among children of poor households in Brazil. We show that while this …
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The Extensive Margin of Exporting Products : A Firm-Level Analysis
Arkolakis, Costas - 2010
To quantify trade frictions, we examine multi-product exporters. We build a flexible general equilibrium model and estimate market entry costs using Brazilian firm-product-destination data under rich demand and market-access cost shocks. Our estimates show that additional products farther from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134907
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Sustainability and the Measurement of Wealth
Arrow, Kenneth J. - 2010
significantly in stages of development and resource bases: the United States, China, Brazil, India, and Venezuela. With the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135234
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Decomposing the Great Trade Collapse : Products, Prices, and Quantities in the 2008-2009 Crisis
Haddad, Mona - 2010
international trade into product entry and exit, price changes, and quantity changes for imports by Brazil, the European Union …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139522
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The Contribution of China, India and Brazil to Narrowing North-South Differences in Gdp/Capita, World Trade Shares, and Market Capitalization
Wang, Jing - 2012
/capita, shares in world trade and market capitalization attributable both jointly and single to China, India, and Brazil (the three … Brazil. Our calculations show that the majority of the change occurs from growth in these three economies, and the most from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113158
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Labor Reallocation in Response to Trade Reform
Menezes-Filho, Naercio A. - 2011
Tracking individual workers across jobs after Brazil's trade liberalization in the 1990s shows that tariff cuts trigger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120987
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Wage Effects of Trade Reform with Endogenous Worker Mobility
Krishna, Pravin - 2011
In this paper, we use a linked employer-employee database from Brazil to evaluate the wage effects of trade reform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122021
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The Institutions of Monetary Policy
King, Mervyn - 2011
Brazil and the United Kingdom; currency arrangements in Iraq and their reform after the 2003 war; and the relationship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124259
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Income-Based Disparities in Health Care Utilization Under Universal Coverage in Brazil
Cataife, Guido - 2011
Since Brazil's adoption of universal health care in 1988, the country's health care system has consisted of a mix of … in Brazil despite universal coverage using a nationally representative sample of over 48,000 households. Additional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124848
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Changing Social Contracts : Beliefs and Dissipative Inclusion in Brazil
Alston, Lee J. - 2012
equilibrium in a country over time. We present evidence that beliefs are typically very stable over time, yet argue that Brazil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096858