The question of whether legalization affects the economic returns of immigrants has been the focus of many empirical studies in the past two decades. Their results have consistently shown that there exists significant wage differences between legal and illegal workers. However, the validity of...

This paper examines the effect of hosting the Summer Olympic Games on future country's sport success, computing the total number of Olympic medals in the subsequent Games. In order to control for the endogeneity produced by the hosting decision, we use the Synthetic Control Method (SCM), which...

Small businesses are important to the economic growth of developing countries. The paper evaluates the causal effect of reducing bureaucracy and the tax burden on small manufacturing firms in Brazil. The identification explored the discontinuity among firms next to the eligibility threshold...

This paper provides evidence of the effect of age at school entry on college admission. We do so by exploiting a number of features in the application process to one of the major flagship universities in Brazil. By comparing applicants with different ages at school entry depending on whether...