Em novo livro, o economista Michael França critica a ideia de que a escolaridade, sozinha, resolve desigualdades do país e discute como raça, gênero e origem social ainda definem trajetórias no Brasil

Martin Luther urged each town to have a girls' school so that girls would learn to read the Gospel, thereby evoking a surge of building girls' schools in Protestant areas. Using county- and town-leve...

Novo livro reinterpreta raízes do atraso de Portugal ante o resto da Europa. Divergência teria ocorrido mais tarde do que estabelece a visão tradicional, e um dos fatores foi impulso ao absolutismo da...

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A key barrier to economic development is that while new technologies can offer substantial productivity gains, firms in poorer countries often do not adopt them. This column uses firm-level data to track the adoption of the key technology of the 19th century – the steam engine – during Sweden’s rapid industrial take-off. Much like in many developing countries today, Swedish firms were generally too small to profitably adopt the new technology. The authors document the central role of an institutional innovation – the modern corporation – and demonstrate that when firms were given the opportunity to incorporate, they expanded and adopted steam technology.

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The side effects of a big push growth strategy: export incentives and primary education under military rule in Brazil, 1967–1985

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Work in progress Economic consequences of education backwardness in twentieth century Brazilwith Samuel Pessôa, William Summerhill and Edmilson Varejão Matrículas no ensino primário no Brasil, 1872-1...

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