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Thomas Kang
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economic history, education and development | professor @fceufrgs

🚨New article available online! "A new dataset of average years of schooling in Brazil, 1925–2015" by Júlia R. Walter & @kangthomas tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…






Criar não significa que chegou a implantar plenamente a instituição. Todos que estudaram o governo FHC sabem que seu projeto era transformar as universidades federais em organizações, uma forma de privatização. Asfixiou as instituições via orçamento público para chegar a esse ponto. Não deu certo.



The world’s most complicated tax system is holding back Brazil’s growth. The government collects more tax revenue than most of its peers. But the system is a mess economist.com/the-americas/2…





Fertility rates across East Asia are comically low. Look to these nations to see the demographic future of the Western nations. We will need to reimagine work, retirement, and healthcare.







This is very kind!' I got a lot of pushback on them at first. I worry sometimes that in economics, there can be a penalty for deviating too much from a wall of latex.,






Purely from a practical perspective: econ PhD students could spend more time looking into other fields. It's actually very useful for writing papers! You look very impressive if you can quote sociologists or historians or lawyers or the like