This research presents a specific overview of the various externalities associated with the displacement of the habitants of Sao Paulo. Largely resulting from the intensive use of individual motorized transport, these ...

The aim of this study was to test whether political influence comes into play in the approval of loans to State governments by the Brazilian National Senate. Although all the requests for loans submitted to the Senate ...

Do Brazil's political parties matter in elections? The article focuses on this problem by analyzing whether a mayor's election influences his party's electoral performance in the same city. A regression discontinuity model ...

This paper estimates the effect of highways on land prices using the implementation of the west branch of a large beltway around Sao Paulo Metropolitan Area. This is a unique opportunity since the beltway is being implemented ...

Quando os avanços no conhecimento se difundirem entre as instituições e os indivíduos ligados direta ou indiretamente à gestão pública local, as cidades brasileiras poderão se tornar mais igualitárias e serão capazes de ...

Cities and Social Equity is a report by the Urban Age research team with commissioned pieces from Ipsos MORI, United Nations Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (ILANUD), the Centre for ...

In the last decades it could be seen in Brazil a considerable decrease in the labor force in manufacturing and an increase in the service sector. This research attempts to understand that process in a dynamic model where ...

This paper resumes the presentation of the index of electoral concentration suggested by Avelino, Biderman e Silva (2011). It also extends the original scope to include all candidates for federal deputy throughout the ...

A consortium of three universities, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV), and Technische Universität Berlin, and the Municipality of São Paulo, Brazil, propose a study of urban ...