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We estimate the causal real economic effects of a randomized anticorruption crackdown on local governments in Brazil …
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This paper studies the link between television and divorce in Brazil by exploiting variation in the timing of …
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In recent years, a large number of studies have investigated the relationship between social security benefits and male retirement decisions in developed countries. However, women's and couples' labour supply decisions and the patterns of withdrawal from the labour force in emerging economies...
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the case of Brazil. The IT monetary policy regime has been adopted by a significant number of countries. While the focus … of this paper is on Brazil, which began inflation targeting in 1999, we also examine the experience of other countries … compare the experience of Brazil with that of non-IT countries, and ask the question of whether adopting IT makes a difference …
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matching comparison methodology developed by Ñopo (2008). In Brazil, racial wage gaps are more pronounced than those found …
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This paper argues that the pass-through in Brazil has fallen compared with estimates in other studies on earlier time …
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during 1998-2000. A large and positive effect on employment is found from this latter program. In this program it was much …
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It has long been recognized that there is considerable heterogeneity in individual risk taking behavior but little is known about the distribution of risk taking types. We present a parsimonious characterization of risk taking behavior by estimating a finite mixture regression model for three...
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We use the 1952 Swedish municipal amalgamation reform to study free-riding and the common pool problem in politics. We expect municipalities that were affected by the reform to increase their debt in anticipation of a merger, and this effect to be larger if they were merged with many other...
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