Exclusionary Policies in Urban Development, How under-servicing of migrant households affects the growth and composition of Brazilian cities

Leo Feler, J. Vernon Henderson

NBER Working Paper No. 14136
Issued in June 2008

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We thank Andrew Foster and seminar participants at Carnegie Mellon and Brown Universities and at the Philadelphia Federal Reserve for helpful comments and suggestions. We are grateful to Cassio Magalhaes, Flora Maravalhas, and Adam Storeygard for research assistance, to Lynn Carlson for assistance with GIS, and to Cristina Costa at the Brazilian Meteorological Institute (INMET)for providing data. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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