. -- Family health program ; mortality ; household behavior ; impact evaluation ; Brazil …This paper analyzes the direct and indirect impacts of Brazil's Family Health Program. We estimate the effects of the … program on mortality and on household behavior related to child labor and schooling, employment of adults, and fertility. We …

wave of COVID-19 infections in Brazil. We use the concentration curve, the concentration index, and a decomposition …

productivity markers in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil's financial center and the most populous city in South America today … infant mortality and sex ratios at birth in 1920 (the short-run). We find robust evidence of persistent effects on health …

expectancy has shifted consistently in the recent past. But reductions in mortality within Brazil have been more homogeneously …This paper describes the pattern of reductions in mortality across Brazilian municipalities between 1970 and 2000, and … in mortality. The results suggest that gains in life expectancy had a welfare value equivalent to 39% of the growth in …