Purpose – This paper aims to investigate whether shocks to the health of a self-employed worker in Brazil increase the labour supply of other household members. Design/methodology/approach – Using data from the Brazilian National Household Survey, this paper investigates whether the...

This note presents evidence from Brazil that children who benefit from cash transfer programs have better health indicators than those who live in a nonbenefited household and than nonbenefited children who live in a household that receives cash transfers.

Este artigo analisa o impacto da educação dos pais sobre os retornos à escolaridade dos trabalhadores e as consequências desse efeito para a desigualdade de rendimentos no Brasil. Utilizando dados da Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios (PNAD) de 1996, os resultados mostram que cada...

This paper analyzes whether differences in nutritional outcomes between white and black children are related to disparities in socioeconomic status and how improvements in nutritional indicators for each racial group over time are associated with changes in household income, parent's education...