Brazil in Transition: Agriculture, Labor, and Health

technology adoption;agricultural labor markets;worker mobility;environmental regulation;pollution and health;Economics;Business and Economics;Economics

Davis, CharlesRhode, Paul W ;

University of Michigan

关键词: technology adoption;    agricultural labor markets;    worker mobility;    environmental regulation;    pollution and health;    Economics;    Business and Economics;    Economics;   

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瑞士|英语

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【 摘 要 】

My dissertation studies major transitions in labor, agriculture, and health in Brazil. In recent decades, Brazil moved from a relatively poor, highly unequal country to an increasingly prosperous and egalitarian middle-income country. These successes, combined with the breadth and detail of available data, offer the opportunity to discover new insights about process of development. In each of three chapters, I focus on different but related topics in the growing Brazilian economy: the adoption of mechanical harvesting in one of Brazil;;s major crops, measuring the effect of air pollution on health, and the transitions of workers exposed to technological change. I combine confidential, country-wide microdata with modern statistical methods to overcome identification challenges and to draw lessons from the experience of Brazil.My results emphasize that market forces can lead to technology adoption when government intervention does not, that remote sensing data is an inadequate substitute for ground-based pollution monitoring, and that local labor market conditions are primary determinants of workers;; success in coping with technological displacement.