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Rodrigo R. Soares - Research

Journal Articles

  1. Allocation of Children's Time along Gender Lines: Work, School, and Domestic Work in Brazil (with Diana Kruger and Matías Berthelon). Research in Labor Economics, forthcoming.

  2. Life Expectancy and Welfare in Latin America and the Caribbean. Health Economics, 18(S1), April 2009, S37-S54.

  3. Altruism, Fertility, and the Value of Children: Health Policy Evaluation and Intergenerational Welfare (with Javier A. Birchenall). Journal of Public Economics, 93(1-2), February 2009, 280-295.

  4. The Demographic Transition and the Sexual Division of Labor (with Bruno Falcão). Journal of Political Economy, 116(6), December 2008, 1058-1104.

  5. Health and the Evolution of Welfare across Brazilian Municipalities. Journal of Development Economics, 84(2), November 2007, 590–608.

  6. On the Determinants of Mortality Reductions in the Developing World. Population and Development Review, 33(2), June 2007, 247-287.

  7. The Welfare Cost of Violence across Countries. Journal of Health Economics, 25(5), September 2006, 821-846.

  8. The Effect of Longevity on Schooling and Fertility: Evidence from the Brazilian Demographic and Health Survey. Journal of Population Economics, 19(1), February 2006, 71-97.

  9. Mortality Reductions, Educational Attainment, and Fertility Choice. American Economic Review, 95(3), June 2005, 580-601.

  10. The Quantity and Quality of Life and the Evolution of World Inequality (with Gary S. Becker and Tomas J. Philipson). American Economic Review, 95(1), March 2005, 277-291.

  11. Accountability and Corruption: Political Institutions Matter (with Daniel Lederman and Norman Loayza). Economics and Politics, 17(1), March 2005, 1-35.

  12. Crime Reporting as a Measure of Institutional Development. Economic Development and Cultural Change, 52(4), July 2004, 851-871.

  13. Development, Crime, and Punishment: Accounting for the International Differences in Crime Rates. Journal of Development Economics, 73(1), February 2004, 155-184.

  14. Wage Determination in Brazil: Duality or Non-linearity in the Return to Education? (in Portuguese, with Gustavo Gonzaga). Revista de Econometria/Brazilian Review of Econometrics, 19(2), November 1999, 367-404.

 

Book Chapters and Invited Articles.

  1. Mortality. In: Mark Juergensmeyer and Helmut Anheier (editors). The Encyplopedia of Global Studies, Sage Publishers, forthcoming.

  2. Demographic Transition. In: Mark Juergensmeyer and Helmut Anheier (editors). The Encyplopedia of Global Studies, Sage Publishers, forthcoming.

  3. Drug Prohibition and Developing Countries: Uncertain Benefits, Certain Costs (with Philip Keefer and Norman Loayza). In: Philip Keefer and Norman Loayza (editors). Innocent Bystanders: Developing Countries and the War on Drugs, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

  4. Understanding High Crime Rates in Latin America: The Role of Social and Policy Factors (with Joana Naritomi). In: Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Edwards, and Ernesto Schargrodsky (editors). The Economics of Crime: Lessons for Latin America, University of Chicago Press, forthcoming.

  5. Fertility in ‘Post-Demographic Transition’ Countries. 2050: A Changing Europe – Pharmaceuticals Policy and Law, 9(S1-2), 2007, 15-27.

  6. Comment on “Assessing Health Reform in Colombia: From Theory to Practice,” by Alejandro Gaviria, Carlos Medina, and Carolina Mejía. Economía, the Journal of LACEA, 7(1), Fall 2006, 65-69.

  7. On the Political Nature of Corruption. (with Daniel Lederman and Norman V. Loayza). In: Rick Stapenhurst, Niall Johnston, and Riccardo Pelizzo (editors). The Role of Parliament in Curbing Corruption, World Bank, 2006, 27-40.

  8. The Economic Cost of AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Reassessment (with Tomas J. Philipson). In: Guillem López-Casasnovas, Berta Rivera, and Luis Currais (editors). Health and Economic Growth: Findings and Policy Implications, MIT Press, 2005, 313-336.

  9. Measuring Corruption: Validating Subjective Surveys of Perceptions. In: Diana Rodriguez, Gerard Waite, and Toby Wolfe (editors). Global Corruption Report 2005 – Corruption in Construction and Post-conflict Reconstruction, Pluto Press, 2005, 289-292.

  10. World Inequality and the Rise in Longevity (with Tomas J. Philipson). In: Boris Pleskovic and Nicholas Stern (editors). Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2001/2002, Oxford University Press, 2002, 245-259.


Working Papers

  1. Institutional Development and Colonial Heritage within Brazil (with Joana Naritomi and Juliano J. Assunção; earlier versions circulated as "Rent-Seeking and the Unveiling of 'de Facto' Institutions: Development and Colonial Heritage within Brazil"). [pdf file]

  2. Household Choices of Child Labor and Schooling: A Simple Model with Application to Brazil (with Diana Kruger and Matías Berthelon). Revision and resubmission requested by Journal of Human Resources. [pdf file]

  3. Evaluating the Impact of Community-Based Health Interventions: Evidence from Brazil’s Family Health Program (with Romero Rocha). Revision and resubmission requested by Health Economics. [pdf file]