This paper attempts to identify the climatic effect on birth outcomes in Brazil and, thus, to predict the potential … impact of climate change. Panel data models indicate that excess and lack of rainfall have the most important harmful effects … forecasts for Brazil suggests a possible increase of 305 neonatal deaths annually and, for families in the Primary Care Program …

using spatial panel data models. The spatial scales examined are minimum comparable areas, micro-regions, meso-regions and … states over the period between 1970 and 2000. Alternative spatial panel data models with fixed effects were systematically … south in Brazil. Moreover, the positive average-years-of-schooling coefficient gets larger as more aggregate spatial scales …

panel dataset of students in the São Paulo municipal school system. The potential endogeneity of working decisions and …