/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 …

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 …

global commodity prices to municipality level agricultural endowments in Brazil. We find that the firm creation response is …

. We explore the role of rent-seeking episodes in colonial Brazil as determinants of the quality of current local …

counterproductive consequences. This paper models a terrorist organization, a religious group from which the terrorists recruit suicide …

This paper examines whether house demolitions are an effective counterterrorism tactic against suicide terrorism. We … suicide attacks against Israeli targets. By exploiting spatial and time variation in house demolitions and suicide terror … attacks during the second Palestinian uprising, we show that punitive house demolitions (those targeting Palestinian suicide …

We analyze the link between economic conditions and the quality of suicide terrorism. While the existing empirical …, higher-impact, terror missions. Using the universe of Palestinian suicide terrorists against Israeli targets between the … years 2000 and 2006 we provide evidence on the correlation between economic conditions, the characteristics of suicide …

than those of having considered or planned suicide and equivalent to having attempted suicide, which seemingly signify more …