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Egger, Eva-Maria - 2019

migration on crime with longitudinal data from Brazilian microregiões. Using local labour demand shocks in the manufacturing … per cent increase in the homicide rate in destinations. Exploring possible channels, I do not find that crime …-prone migrants drive the results. The effect is only significant in locations with high past crime rates, indicating crime inertia …

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Avaliação da eficiência dos centros de referência de assistência social no Brasil

da Silva, Ângelo Henrique Lopes; Sawaya Neto, Melchior; … - 2015

Brazilian Welfare Policy, in its basic protection dimension, is implemented by public structures called as Referencial Centers of Social Assistence (Cras), which work at the local level (municipalities), but are organized, coordinated, legislated and co-financed by the federal government. This...

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Capacidades estatais para a implementação de programas de transferência de renda: Os casos de Brasil, Argentina e África do Sul

Bichir, Renata Mirandola - 2015

This research analyzes the principal conditions that allowed the development of national cash transfer programs in the social protection systems of Brazil, Argentina and South Africa. The main focuses are the political and institutional conditions for the emergence and development of these...

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Capacidades estatais no programa bolsa família: O desafio de consolidação do sistema único de assistência social

Coutinho, Diogo R. - 2013

In a slow process marked by authoritarian moments, regressive effects, bureaucratic insulation, centralized arrangements and cronyism, since the 1930s Brazil has been building its Welfare State. In the wake of struggles and political clashes for ensuring rights and reviving democracy, the...

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Distribuição de renda nos anos 2010: Uma década perdida para desigualdade e pobreza

Barbosa, Rogério J.; Soares, Sergei - 2020

In this paper we analyze Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios Contínua (PNAD Contínua) microdata from 2012 to 2018 to document how the mid-decade economic recession reversed the trend of pro-poor growth that dated back to the early 2000s. Since the recession, there was a rise in...

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Can the context mediate macro-policy outcomes? : contextual differences in the returns to Bolsa Familia in Brazil

Jacobi, Nadia von - 2014

Local institutional and structural (meso) factors can play a role in mediating the returns to a macro-social policy. I focus on the Brazilian cash-transfer-programme Bolsa Familia and check how contextual features influence the returns to transfers. Building on Amartya Sen's work, I assess the...

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Trade liberalization and the rise of populism in Brazil

Iacoella, Francesco; Justino, Patricia; Martorano, Bruno - 2020

This paper investigates the long-term impact of economic shocks on populism, by exploiting a natural experiment created by the trade liberalization process implemented in Brazil between 1990 and 1995. This high impact and low duration event generated a profound shock to the economy with, we...

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What are the main drivers of Brazilian income distribution changes in the new millennium?

Neri, Marcelo Cortes - 2018

After three decades of persistently high income inequality, from 2001 Brazil experienced a downward inequality trend followed by rising household income growth. Both movements lasted until 2015. This work synthesizes the results of six papers, describing Brazilian income distribution trends and...

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Law enforcement and illegal markets : evidence from the regulation of junkyards in Brazil

Mancha, André - 2022

I describe how monitoring and harsher law enforcement reduce the expected economic benefits of crime. I investigate the …

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