This paper examines the effects of better houses on infant health in the context of Brazil’s Minha Casa Minha Vida program, which built roughly 900,000 houses to poor households in Brazil during the period 2010-2017. We ...

In this work we propose a model that represents the relation between fish ponds, the mosquito population and the transmission of malaria. It has been observed that in the Amazonic region of Acre, in the North of Brazil, ...

Indebted policymakers have a limited budget and are subject to inflationary shocks forcing them to either (i) increase interest rate to have inflation on the pre-announced target or (ii) accept higher inflation. We model ...

This paper shows how the adoption of an agricultural technology necessary to meet new environmental standards can prompt structural transformation in an emerging economy. We study the fast spread of mechanical harvesting ...

This paper evaluates the effects of a housing program that built houses for low-income families from the city of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). We explore the lotteries used to select the program’s beneficiaries to provide ...

Brazilian Industrial Production Index undergoes different methodological updates and periods of high inflation over time, which prompts researchers to avoid using too long industrial production series. We analyze how ...

Does grassroots participation improve public service delivery? We study the e ect of a mobile phone application that allows citizens to monitor school construction projects in Brazilian municipalities. The app provides a ...

This paper exploits the revealed preferences of all generalist physicians graduated in Brazil between 2001 and 2013 to examine the factors influencing their decision of practice location after graduation. We estimate ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how resilience at different nodes in the supply chain influences overall supply chain resilience (SCRES) during an extreme weather event. Design/methodology/approach – ...