This paper is a study of the effect of Brazil's staggered Internet rollout between 2000 and 2014 on municipality … employment and wages. The study uses a new, annual data set on Internet availability from the Brazil school census, with the … Internet connections. These data are combined with Brazil's rich, matched employer-employee survey, which contains annual …

The Gini coefficient of labor earnings in Brazil fell by nearly a fifth between 1995 and 2012, from 0.50 to 0.41. The …

the law that increased the minimum employment age from 14 to 16 in Brazil in 1998, and uncovers its impact on time …

simplification program in Brazil called SIMPLES on firms' formalization rates and performance indicators. Using the same data set but …

-level dataset that covers the full manufacturing sector in Brazil. To identify the impact of Apex's assistance on firms' export …

approximately 20,000 high school students in Brazil through a randomized control trial. The program increased student financial …

This paper analyzes the macroeconomic implications of population aging in Brazil. Three alternative yet complementary …, saving rates could increase and not necessarily fall as a consequence of aging in Brazil -- thus contradicting conventional … conclusion, Brazil will not necessarily experience a fall in saving and growth, but if government policies are appropriately …