This paper examines the influence of income distribution and of federal transfers to the Federation Units (FUs) on the flow of migrants received by each of the FU. The study breaks new ground by adopting aggregated data to measure the effects of public policy on immigration. The econometric...

The present paper investigates whether the decentralization of the rural land property tax (ITR) in Brazil increases the aggregate volume of tax collection from this source. We apply a difference-in-differences strategy where treatment is defined as the switch from a federal administration to...