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Representation Failure
Iaryczower, Matias; Montero, Sergio; Kim, Galileu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Democratic representation is constrained by the alternatives available to voters. In this paper, we develop a methodology to gauge the extent to which the "supply side" of politics hinders voter welfare. Using rich data on thousands of candidates in three Brazilian legislative elections, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191060
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Earnings Inequality and Dynamics in the Presence of Informality : The Case of Brazil
Engbom, Niklas; Gonzaga, Gustavo; Moser, Christian; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
facts on earnings inequality and dynamics in a developing country with a large informal sector: Brazil. Since the mid-1990s …, both inequality and volatility of earnings have declined significantly in Brazil's formal sector. Higher-order moments of … the distribution of earnings changes show cyclical movements in Brazil that are similar to those in developed countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012814471
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Political Power, Elite Control, and Long-Run Development : Evidence from Brazil
Ferraz, Claudio - 2020
This paper analyzes how changes in the concentration of political power affect long-run development. We study Brazil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481651
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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/10012461589
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Global Trends in Income Inequality and Income Dynamics : New Insights from GRID
Guvenen, Fatih; Pistaferri, Luigi; Violante, Giovanni L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID) is a new open-access, cross- country database that contains a wide range of micro statistics on income inequality, dynamics, and mobility. It has four key characteristics: it is built on micro panel data drawn from administrative records; it fully...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388880
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The Real Effects of Banking the Poor : Evidence from Brazil
Fonseca, Julia; Matray, Adrien - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
development affects inequality. Our results are inconsistent with alternative explanations such as differential exposure to Brazil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210085
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The Monetary and Fiscal History of Brazil, 1960-2016
Ayres, Joao - 2019
Brazil has had a long period of high inflation. It peaked around 100 percent per year in 1964, decreased until the … indexation in accounting for the unique features of inflation dynamics in Brazil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479377
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The Monetary and Fiscal History of Bolivia, 1960–2017
Kehoe, Timothy J. - 2019
After the economic reforms that followed the National Revolution of the 1950s, Bolivia seemed positioned for sustained growth. Indeed, it achieved unprecedented growth from 1960 to 1977. The rapid accumulation of debt due to persistent deficits and a fixed exchange rate policy during the 1970s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479478
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Structural Change, Fundamentals and Growth : A Framework and Case Studies
McMillan, Margaret - 2017
development quest. The sample includes seven developing countries--Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, India, Vietnam and Brazil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455303
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Paving the Way to Development : Costly Migration and Labor Market Integration
Morten, Melanie - 2016
How integrated are labor markets within a country? Labor mobility is key to the integration of local labor markets and therefore to understanding the efficacy of policies to reduce regional inequality. We present a comprehensive framework for understanding migration decisions, focusing on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456517