“…To test these hypotheses, I examine three consecutive Presidential elections in Brazil (2010Brazil ( , 2014Brazil ( , and 2018. Similarly to previous research in economics and political science (Autor et al, 2016;Colantone and Stanig, 2018b,a;Campello and Urdinez, 2020;Costa et al, 2016;Baccini and Weymouth, 2021), I measure the exposure of local labor markets to the drop in Brazilian exports between 2011 and 2018 by constructing a shift-share instrument (Bartik, 1987;Goldsmith-Pinkham et al, 2018;Borusyak et al, 2018). I rely on electoral and census data to analyze the effect of the export shock on changes in PT vote shares in this period in regions with different concentrations of CCTs beneficiaries and Evangelicals.…”