Browsing Working Papers by Author "Souza, Andre Portela"
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Emerson, Patrick M.; Souza, Andre Portela (Vanderbilt University, 2002)In this paper we examine intra-household gender differences and the incidence of child labor and children¬πs school attendance in Brazil to test whether the unitary model of household allocations is suitable in the child ...
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Emerson, Patrick M.; Souza, Andre Portela (Vanderbilt University, 2002)This paper examines the effects of birth order on the child labor incidence and school attendance of Brazilian children. Evidence from the psychology and sociology literature suggests that earlier-born children tend to ...
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Freije, Samuel; Souza, Andre Portela (Vanderbilt University, 2002)In this paper, we decompose the variance of logarithmic monthly earnings of prime age males into its permanent and transitory components, using a five-wave rotating panel from the Venezuelan "Encuesta de Hogares por Muestreo" ...
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Horowitz, Andrew W.; Souza, Andre Portela (Vanderbilt University, 2004)In this paper we compare the intra-household dispersion of children's education achievement in single female-parent households with two-parent households. We find significantly more dispersion across children in households' ...
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Emerson, Patrick M.; Souza, Andre Portela (Vanderbilt University, 2002)This paper examines inter-generational persistence in child labor by developing a dynamic model and exploring its implications empirically in Brazil. We begin by building a simple overlapping generations model of the ...
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Souza, Andre Portela (Vanderbilt University, 2002)In this paper, I examine the sources of wage inequality changes among prime age male workers in Brazil during the 1980's and 1990's. Inequality increased in the 1980's and decreased in the 1990's. I begin by decomposing ...