Rising Brazil: Implications for the United States

Foreign policy commentator Matias Spektor explains that "Brazil and the US are not natural allies — shared interests on their own do not automatically produce alliances." That is why "A working partnership, if it is to exist at all, must be engineered."

Rising Brazil: implications for world order and international institutions

Palestra promovida pelo Centro de Relações Internacionais da FGV.

Bright minds, big rent: gentrification and the rising returns to skill

In 1980, housing prices in the main US cities rose with distance to the city center. By 2010, that relationship had reversed. We propose that this development can be traced to greater labor supply of high-income households through reduced tolerance for commuting. In a tract-level data set covering the 27 largest US cities, years 1980-2010, we employ a city-level Bartik demand shifter for skilled labor and find support for our hypothesis: full-time skilled workers favor proximity to the city center and their increased presence can account for the observed price changes, notably the rising price premium commanded by centrality.