This paper analyzes the determinants of local institutions and distribution of political power within a constant 'macro-institutional' setting. We show that characteristics of Brazilian municipalities related to institutional quality and distribution of political power are partly inherited from...

What drives export quality? Using Portuguese firm-level data on exports by product and destination market, we find that f.o.b. unit values increase systematically with distance, and tend to be higher in shipments to richer nations. These relationships reflect not only the sorting of firms across...

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...

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...

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