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Both in Brazil and in the U.S., labor earnings still represent nearly 80% of the total income reported in household surveys. Thus, labor market will decidedly play a central role on total income inequality. The paper recently published by Alexandre Gori Maia, Arthur Sakamoto (Texas A&M University) and Sharron Wang (Delaware State University) analyzes the relationship between the development of occupational structure and income inequality in Brazil and the U.S.

Two recently published papers discuss how the blockchain technology can be applied in environmental policies.  The papers argue that blockchain can decentralize and deburocratize the water governance.

The 2019 AAEA Annual Meeting (Agricutural & Aplied Economics Association) took place in Atlant, from July 21st to 23rd 2019. Alexandre Gori presented two papers highlighting the impacts of a climate resilience program in the Brazilian semiarid region (Sertão).

Course of Panel Data Econometrics - Class 2019

The course in Panel Data Econometrics took place at the Institute of Economic (UNICAMP) in the first week of July 2019. This year, 31 post-graduation students and researchers participated in the course. 

The seminar Public Budget, Inequality and Human Rights took place at the University of Campinas on April 24th. The session presented by Fernando Gaiger (IPEA), Rodolfo Hoffmann (USP-Esalq) and Alexandre Gori (UNICAMP), coordination of Luana Passos (IPEA), discussed how the Consumer Expenditure Survey can be used to evaluate the impacts of public policies in Brazil.