Marcos A. Rangel

Last Update: DEC 2007

Publications

“Alimony Rights and Intra-Household Allocation of Resources: Evidence from Brazil”. The Economic Journal, Jul-2006. Working paper version here.

“Extended Family Networks in Rural Mexico: a descriptive analysis”. (with M. Angelucci, G. De Giorgi, and I. Rasul). Forthcoming in Tim Besley and Raji Jayaraman (eds.), CESifo Conference on Institutions and Development, MIT Press, 2007.

Current Research

“Is Parental Love Colorblind? Allocation of Resources within Mixed Families”. June 2007. Under peer review. Working paper version here.

“Family Networks and School Enrollment: Evidence from a Randomized Social Experiment” (with M. Angelucci, G. De Giorgi, and I. Rasul). Mar 2007. Under peer review. Working paper version here.

“Out of West-Africa: Evidence on the Efficient Allocation of Resources within Farm Households” (with D. Thomas) . Nov-2005. Under peer review. Working paper version here.

“Beyond Single Parenthood: Accounting for Spillover Effects of Child Support Enforcement”. Working Paper, Jul-2005. Grant proposal submitted.

“Allocation of Resources Within Extended-Family Households”. Work in Progress, Feb-2005. Presented at the AEA Meeting, January 2005.

“Ownership Rights, Marriage Markets and Family Decision-Making: Evidence from U.S. Historical Data”. Working Paper, Mar-2006. Presented at the PAA Meeting, April 2006.

Previous Research

“Bailouts, Soft Budget Constraints and Fiscal Policy in Brazilian States”. [in Portuguese] Published as a book in the series, Premio BNDES de Economia, Vol. 25, 2003. [Download pdf]

“Currency Overvaluation in Brazil”. [in Portuguese] Published as a book in the series, Premio de Monografias do Corecon-RJ, 1997.

Teaching