Immigration and the origins of regional inequality: Government-sponsored European migration to Southern Brazil before World War I

This paper studies the long-term consequences of the government-sponsored programs of European immigration to Southern Brazil before the Great War. We find that the municipalities closer to the original sites of nineteenth century government sponsored settlements (colônias) have higher per capita income, less poverty and dependence on Bolsa Família cash transfers, better health and education outcomes; and for the areas close to German colonies, also less inequality of income and educational outcomes than otherwise. Since that is a reduced form relationship, we then attempt to identify the relative importance of more egalitarian landholdings and higher initial human capital in determining those outcomes. Our findings are suggestive that more egalitarian land distribution played a more important role than higher initial human capital in achieving the good outcomes associated with closeness to a colônia.Brazil; Migration; Rio Grande do Sul; German migration; Italian migration; New World; Land distribution; Human capital; Economic history of Latin America

Dynamical mechanisms leading to equilibration in two-component gases

Demonstrating how microscopic dynamics cause large systems to approach thermal equilibrium remains an elusive, longstanding, and actively-pursued goal of statistical mechanics. We identify here a dynamical mechanism for thermalization in a general class of two-component dynamical Lorentz gases, and prove that each component, even when maintained in a non-equilibrium state itself, can drive the other to a thermal state with a well-defined effective temperature.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure

Los ojos del toro : nuevas orientaciones : estudio científico del toreo

Copia digital. Valladolid : Junta de Castilla y León. Consejería de Cultura y Turismo, 201

Diez cartas escritas por Doña Concepción Arenal dirigidas a mi buen padre Jesús de Monasterio

Precede al tít.: Homenaje a Concepción Arenal en el año centenario de su nacimientoPublicado en: Basílica teresiana (n. 57-58, 1919)Copia digital. Valladolid : Junta de Castilla y León. Consejería de Cultura y Turismo, 2009-201

Justificacio de tres casses parroquia de Sant Esteve carrer de la cullereta y quitament de un censal de 200 lliures carregat a favor del Real monastir de Valdigna, perteneixents a la herencia del... canonge Luys Fuentes. [Manuscrito].]

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"It is the economy, companheiro!": an empirical analysis of Lula's re-election based on municipal data

This paper discusses the reasons that led to the Lula's 2006 re-election. Spatial analysis methods revealed that, contrary to 2002, the President had more votes in less developed municipalities of Brazil. The econometric results cast doubt on the analyses that attribute to Bolsa Família Programme total responsibility for the re-election. Lula''s electoral success results from changes in the labor market, low inflation and an export boom that have reduced inequality and improved the real wages of the Brazilian poor.

Centenario de la muerte de Rubén Darío 1916-2016.

La Biblioteca de la AECID facilitó a esta exposición la copia de la postal del Archivo Darío: "Tarjeta postal, 1903 julio 16, Madrid, de Juan Ramón Jiménez a Rubén Darío" (signatura: 3RC-721-1/64)Patrocina la Cooperación Español

Analyzing the Spread of Chagas Disease with Mobile Phone Data

We use mobile phone records for the analysis of mobility patterns and the detection of possible risk zones of Chagas disease in two Latin American countries. We show that geolocalized call records are rich in social and individual information, which can be used to infer whether an individual has lived in an endemic area. We present two case studies, in Argentina and in Mexico, using data provided by mobile phone companies from each country. The risk maps that we generate can be used by health campaign managers to target specific areas and allocate resources more effectively.Comment: 6 pages, 6 figure