DRCLAS-Brazil-list September 2014

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THURSDAY 12PM - What's the Matter with Brasília ? Is olated Capital Cities and Misgovernance

by DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program

*DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program Seminar* *What's the Matter with Brasília? Isolated Capital Cities and Misgovernance* *Filipe Campante* Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University Thursday, October 2, 12:00 p.m. CGIS South Building, Room S-050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge *This event is free and open to the public, and registration is not required.A Brazilian lunch will be served.* www.drclas.harvard.edu *See more...The New York Times* The Opinion Pages | OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR By Filipe Campante http://nyti.ms/1pN904C <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__p.nytimes.com_email_re-…> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__p.nytimes.com_email_re-…>

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Pub for Portuguese Table

by DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program

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TOMORROW 3PM - Bate-Papo (Portuguese conversation practice)

by DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program

*Bate-Papo (Portuguese conversation practice)* Practice your Portuguese and discuss Brazil and other Portuguese-speaking countries and cultures at this informal roundtable. Everyone is welcome! Guaraná and salgadinhos will be served. *Friday, September 19, 3:00-4:30 p.m.* CGIS South Building, 2nd Floor, Room S-216, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge *Co-sponsored by the DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program and the Portuguese section of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard.* www.drclas.harvard.edu

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TOMORROW 12PM - Media Networks and Political Accountability: Evidence from Radio Networks in Brazil

by DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program

*DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program Seminar* *Media Networks and Political Accountability: Evidence from Radio Networks in Brazil* *Horacio Larreguy* Assistant Professor in the Department of Government, Harvard University Thursday, September 18, 12:00 p.m. CGIS South Building, Room S-050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge This event is free and open to the public, and registration is not required. A Brazilian lunch will be served. www.drclas.harvard.edu

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FRIDAY 3PM - Bate-Papo (Portuguese conversation practice)

by DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program

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THURSDAY 12PM - Media Networks and Political Accountability: Evidence from Radio Networks in Brazil

by DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program

*DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program Seminar* *Media Networks and Political Accountability: Evidence from Radio Networks in Brazil* *Horacio Larreguy* Assistant Professor in the Department of Government, Harvard University Thursday, September 18, 12:00 p.m. CGIS South Building, Room S-050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge *This event is free and open to the public, and registration is not required.A Brazilian lunch will be served.* www.drclas.harvard.edu

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Friday 7PM - Popcorn Show: Documented (2013)

by DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program

*Popcorn Show: Documented (2013)* Friday, September 12 | 7:00 pm at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center – Suites 3 and 4 736 Cambridge St., Brighton The critically-acclaimed biographical film was written, directed and produced by Jose Antonio Vargas, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who began working on the film shortly before June 2011, when he revealed that he is undocumented in a personal essay for the New York Times Magazine, “My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” and launched Define American. In English, free and open to the public. *Sessão Popcorn: Documented (2013)* Sexta-feira, 12 de setembro | 19:00 horas No Hospital St. Elizabeth – Salas 3 e 4 do Pavilhão Sta. Margareth 736 Cambridge St., Brighton É a biografia escrita, dirigida e produzida por Jose Antonio Vargas, um jornalista ganhador do Prêmio Pulitzer. Ele começou a trabalhar no filme em junho de 2011, quando ele revelou que era indocumentado em um artigo pessoal publicado no New York Times Magazine, intitulado “My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” (Minha vida como um imigrante indocumentado) e criou Define American. Falado em inglês, entrada gratuíta e aberto ao público.

9 years, 7 months

Thursday @ HKS - The Cognitive and Economic Effects of Water Scarcity: Evidence from Northeast Brazil

by DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program

*The Cognitive and Economic Effects of Water Scarcity: Evidence from Northeast Brazil* Thursday, September 11th, from 12:00 to 12:45 in the Perkins Room at HKS. *Guilherme Lichand* (PEG, G4) Does water scarcity affect cognitive capacity as predicted by theory? If so, does lower cognitive capacity translate into worse economic outcomes? By generating random variation in concerns with water scarcity (priming farmers about rainfall over SMS), we document its negative causal effects on attention, memory and impulse-control. In particular, we document that price learning (but not elasticity computations) is adversely affected by concerns with water scarcity. A simple decomposition of expected income points to large losses due to droughts, a significant share of which due to the psychology of water scarcity. Such losses would be much larger, however, if quantity responses did not partially mute the effects of inaccurate price learning, with implications to policies aimed at alleviating credit constraints.

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DRCLAS-Brazil-list September 2014