Since they emerged, favelas in Rio de Janeiro have been, over the years, the focus of various public policies developed by governments. First, the emphasis of these policies was based on the issue of removal of the favelas, ...

The emergence of slums is a common feature in a country’s path towards urbanization, structural transformation and development. Based on salient micro and macro evidence of Brazilian labor, housing and education markets, ...

In field experiments with subjects living either inside or outside Brazilian slums (n=955), we show that consumers living in slums are less price sensitive, in opposition with recent price sensitivity research. Comparing ...