This paper highlights the way in which workers of different age and ability are affected by anticipated and unanticipated trade liberalisations. A two-factor (skilled and unskilled labour), two-sector Heckscher-Ohlin trade model is supplemented with a education sector which uses skilled labour...

This paper highlights the way in which workers of different ages and abilities are affected by anticipated and unanticipated trade liberalisations. A two-factor (skilled and unskilled labour), two-sector Heckscher-Ohlin trade model is supplemented with an education sector which uses skilled...

Rauch (1999) introduced a product classification scheme that has since been widely used to empirically identify differentiated goods. Using firm-level data on export unit values, we provide direct evidence that this classification is well suited for capturing quality differentiation.

Cireno et al. (2013) compare the school performance and progression of recipients and non-recipients of the Programa Bolsa Família (PBF) using administrative data obtained from the Ministry of Education (MEC), specifically the Sistema Presença, which monitors the school attendance of PBF...

Cireno et al. (2013) compara o desempenho e o percurso escolar de beneficiários e não beneficiários do Programa Bolsa Família (PBF), usando dados administrativos do Ministério da Educação (MEC) do Sistema Presença, que monitora a frequência escolar de beneficiários do Bolsa Família, e...

Condicionalidades, Desempeño y Avance Escolar de los Beneficiarios del Programa Bolsa Familia

Conditionalities, School Performance and Progression of Bolsa Família Programme Recipients

Conditionnalités, résultats scolaires et progression des bénéficiaires du programme Bolsa Familia

This paper examines the extent to which the destination of exports matters for the input prices paid by firms, using detailed customs and firm-product-level data from Portugal. We use exchange-rate movements as a source of variation in export destinations and find that exporting to richer...