Essays on Enviromental and Labour Economics

Abstract

This study utilizes the propensity score matching method with survey weights adjustment to identify the parents' entrepreneurial attitude effects on children’s years of schooling, probability of studying at private schools, and probability of studying at a university (general, public, and private). The micro data employed is from the National Household Sample Survey of 2015. The study also presents a series of robustness strategies and heterogeneous treatment effect analysis. Our findings suggest that entrepreneurial parents are more willing to enroll their children in private schools. These effects are greater when both parents are entrepreneurs. The results also indicate that children of entrepreneurial parents are more likely to study at universities, which are mainly directed to private universities. The heterogeneous treatment effect analysis highlights that the gender of the children and entrepreneurial parents impacts the magnitude of the treatment. Article 2: This study evaluates the effects of PPCDAm implementation on the observed deforestation in the Brazilian Legal Amazon. The triple difference method is used to explore the relative differences between the group of non-metropolitan municipalities with indigenous lands and the group of other municipalities in the region. The results indicate a reduction in deforestation of approximately 16.1 km2 per municipality between 2004 and 2007. This result represents a reduction of 10,293 km² in deforestation area and a stock of 498 million tons of CO2 during the period. We verify the robustness of the results using placebo tests, analysis of heterogeneous effects, and analysis with the flexibility of the composition of the groups. Robustness tests corroborate the results. The results highlight the importance of remote monitoring policies to control deforestation in isolated regions and indigenous lands.