Oil windfalls in Brazil and their long-run social impacts |
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Authors: | Fernando Antonio Slaibe Postali Marislei Nishijima |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Economics, University of Sao Paulo, Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, 908, Cidade Universitária, CEP 05508-900 São Paulo—SP, Brazil;2. School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil |
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Abstract: | In 1997, Brazil changed the regulatory framework of its oil and gas sector. After this change, a restrict subset of localities started to receive large amounts of oil rents. The goal of this paper is to evaluate whether such rents distributed under this law contributed to improving some social indicators relative to the national average in the eligible municipalities. We used a “difference-in-differences” measurement to compare changes in selected social indicators within affected Municipalities in the last two decades, taking the unaffected districts as control group. The Municipal data on social indicators were collected from three National Censuses, conducted in 1991, 2000 and 2010. Results show that royalties had a positive and statistically significant impact on household’s access to electric wiring, piped water and waste collection, as well as in the decrease of illiteracy rate. This means the eligible districts were able to improve some of their social indicators in the long-run. |
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Keywords: | Q32 Q38 |
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