The authors develop a microeconometric method to account for differences across distributions of household income … Brazilian income distribution and those of Mexico and the United States, and find that most of Brazil's excess income inequality …

This paper develops a micro-econometric method to account for differences across distributions of household income … those of the United States and Mexico, and find that most of Brazil's excess income inequality is due to underlying …

Food price inflation in Brazil in the twelve months to June 2008 was 18 percent, while overall inflation was 5 ….3 percent. This paper uses spatially disaggregated monthly data on consumer prices and two different household surveys to … estimate the welfare consequences of these food price increases, and their distribution across households. Because Brazil is a …