Due to the specific characteristics of coffee production on each of the main Brazilian states producers of arabica (Coffea arabica) and robusta coffee (Coffea canephora), a better understanding of the structural links between production and industrialization of coffee on those states and the...

I use variation in coffee production to measure changes in local economic conditions, which proxy for the value of children's time. I test how this variation affects child labor and schooling in Brazilian coffee regions using seven rounds of household surveys. Increases in county-level value of...

Rent seeking is well known, but empirical evidence of its effects is relatively rare. This paper analyzes the how domestic and international rent seeking caused Brazil to provide coffee export tax rebates that transferred foreign exchange to coffee importers. Although Brazil was the world's...