Publications

Peer-reviewed articles, white papers, and other publications from the research team will be shared here as they become available.

 

Working Paper

Welfare Effects of a Permanent Unconditional Cash Transfer Program: Evidence from Maricá, Brazil

Sidhya Balakrishnan, Roberta Costa, Johannes Haushofer, and Fábio Waltenberg · NBER Working Paper 33089 · October 2024

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Policy Brief

Policy Implications of the Maricá Basic Income Evaluation

Lessons from a large basic income study in Brazil.

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Fact Sheets

Study and program overviews

 

Book

Renda básica e economia solidária: o exemplo de Maricá (Portuguese only)

Organized by Fabio Waltenberg and Paul Katz / 2023

 

Quantitative Study Pre-Analysis Plan

Balakrishnan, S., Haushofer, J., Waltenberg, F., & Costa, R. (2022, April 11). Evaluation of the Basic Income Program in Maricá, Brazil. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/DMG9F

 

White Papers and Other Academic Publications

Basic income as a pandemic social protection instrument: Lessons from Maricá, Brazil.

Em International Social Security Review, abril de 2024.

By Jurgen de Wispelaere, Leticia Morales and Fabio Waltenberg

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We take mumbucas: charting the complementary currency that’s transforming a brazilian city.

By Andrea Gama / 2023

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Alternativas ao mercado de crédito formal: uma avaliação do programa de microcrédito do Banco Mumbuca.

Master thesis, 2023.

By Jéssica Maldonado

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A experiência maricaense sob a ótica da economia solidária.

Undergraduate thesis, 2022.

By Iago Esturião

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Evaluating the role of a cash transfer program in promoting local employment: a generalized synthetic control approach.

In Revue d’économie du développement, v. 31, p. 111-117, 2022.

By João Paulo Lima, Valéria Pero and Fabio Waltenberg

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Políticas socioeconômicas de reação à crise da Covid-19 no município de Maricá, Rio de Janeiro.

In Impactos da pandemia de Covid-19 no mercado de trabalho e na distribuição de renda no Brasil, IPEA, 2022.

By Jéssica Maldonado, Rodrigo da Silva, Fernando Freitas and Fabio Waltenberg

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Digital social currencies and local social protection in the brazilian cities of Maricá and Niterói.

Em Policy in Focus, v. 19, p. 43-45, 2022.

Por Ariana Britto, Fernando Freitas and Fabio Waltenberg

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CEDE: Análise de valências das políticas de transferência de renda de Maricá.

Texto para Discussão 170

By Jéssica Maldonado and Fernando Freitas / February 2022

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A velocidade de circulação da moeda mumbuca e a concessão de microcrédito pelo Banco Mumbuca em Maricá de 2018 a 2021

Boletim FINDE, v.2, n.3, 2021

By Andrea Gama, Jéssica Maldonado and Fernando Freitas / December 2021

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Monnaie sociale, revenu de base renforcé et prestations d’urgence aux travailleurs : Analyse préliminaire des politiques innovatrices mises en place à Maricá au Brésil pendant la crise de la COVID-19

In Les pays francophones face à la COVID-19 : Impacts socioéconomiques, politiques de riposte et stratégies de sortie de crise et de résilience économique, Observatoire de la Francophonie économique - Université de Montréal, Canada

By Fabio Waltenberg, F.; Damia. Abchiche,; Rodrigo.. Silva,; Roberta. Costa, Fernando. Freitas,; Andrea. Gama, João Paulo. P. Lima and Jéssica Maldonado / September 2021

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CEDE: The increasing circulation of the Mumbuca social currency in Maricá, 2018-2020

Nota técnica 2

By Andrea Gama and Roberta Costa / August 2021

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Uma análise da intensificação da circulação da moeda social mumbuca de Maricá

Boletim FINDE, v.2, n.2, 2021

By Andrea Gama and Roberta Costa / August 2021

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O município de Maricá em debate: Alcances e limites das ações de combate à pobreza da prefeitura de Maricá em resposta à crise da Covid-19

In Estudos Maricaenses, Instituto Darcy Ribeiro

By Fábio Waltenberg / Spring 2020

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IPEA: Políticas socioeconômicas de reação à crise da Covid-19 no município de Maricá-RJ

By Jéssica Lago da Silva, Rodrigo Carvalho da Silva, Fernando Freitas, Fábio Waltenberg / July 24, 2020