Browsing by Author "Firpo, Sergio Pinheiro"
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Bounds on functionals of the distribution treatment effects
2010-06-01Bounds on the distribution function of the sum of two random variables with known marginal distributions obtained by Makarov (1981) can be used to bound the cumulative distribution function (c.d.f.) of individual treatment ... -
Combinando estratégias para estimação de efeitos de tratamento
2013-12-05Uma ferramenta importante na avaliação de políticas econômicas é a estimação do efeito médio de um programa ou tratamento sobre uma variável de interesse. Em geral, a atribuição do tratamento aos potenciais participantes ... -
Combining strategies for the estimation of treatment effects
2012-03-24The estimation of the average effect of a program or treatment on a variable of interest is an important tool for the assessment of economic policies. In general, assignment of potential participants to treatment does not ... -
Efficient semiparametric estimation of quantile treatment effects
2003-01This paper presents calculations of semiparametric efficiency bounds for quantile treatment effects parameters when se1ection to treatment is based on observable characteristics. The paper also presents three estimation ... -
Electoral rules, political competition and fiscal spending: regression discontinuity evidence from brazilian municipalities
2010-06-16We exploit a discontinuity in Brazilian municipal election rules to investigate whether political competition has a causal impact on policy choices. In municipalities with less than 200,000 voters mayors are elected with ... -
Escolaridade e o diferencial de rendimentos entre o setor privado e o setor público no Brasil
2010-06-16We study the determinants of the public-private earning gap for different levels of schooling of Brazilian workers. First, using the current earnings as the variable of interest, it is estimated an earnings gap favorable ... -
Evidence of eligibility manipulation for conditional cash transfer programs
2013-12-09This paper assesses whether eligibility for conditional cash transfer programs have been manipulated, as well as the impact of this phenomenon on time allocation within households. To perform this analysis, we use data ... -
Future electoral impacts of having a female mayor
2017We explore an electoral quasi-experiment where a woman nearly won or lost to a man in a mayoral election. Our data combines municipal Brazilian election results, which occur every four years, with municipal level votes for ... -
Gender stereotypes in politics: what changes when a woman becomes the local political leader?
2014-02-12This study documents how the presence of a woman in an executive political role affects the gender stereotype of women in politics. We use Brazilian electoral data and restrict our focus to close mayoral races (using an ... -
Identification and estimation of distributional impacts of interventions using changes in inequality measures
2016-05This paper presents estimators of distributional impacts of interventions when selection to the program is based on observable characteristics. Distributional impacts are calculated as differences in inequality measures ... -
Identification and estimation of interventions using changes in inequality measures
2010-06-16This paper presents semiparametric estimators of changes in inequality measures of a dependent variable distribution taking into account the possible changes on the distributions of covariates. When we do not impose ... -
Inequality treatment effects
2005-05-05This paper presents semiparametric estimators for treatment effects parameters when selection to treatment is based on observable characteristics. The parameters of interest in this paper are those that capture summarized ... -
Information, market incentives, and student performance: Evidence from a regression discontinuity design in Brazil
2018We use a discontinuity on the test score disclosure rule for the National Secondary Education Examination in Brazil to test whether test score disclosure affects student performance in public and private schools. We find ... -
Measuring peer effects in the Brazilian school system
2015Using the identification strategy proposed by Graham and Hahn (2005), we estimate the magnitude of classmate effects on math scores using Brazilian data from 2005. In addition, we provide a detailed discussion about the ... -
Modelagem econômica para a avaliação de impactos do programa de pavimentação e recuperação de vicinais do estado de São Paulo
2013-06Neste relatório final apresentamos análises do impacto da renovação das rodovias vicinais no Estado de São Paulo (Programa Pró Vicinais) em diversas variáveis de interesse, a saber, indicadores municipais de saúde, educação, ... -
Occupational tasks and changes in the wage structure
2012-09-12This paper argues that changes in the returns to occupational tasks have contributed to changes in the wage distribution over the last three decades. Using Current Population Survey (CPS) data, we first show that the 1990s ... -
A propensity score approach in the impact evaluation on scientific production in Brazilian biodiversity research: the BIOTA Program
2014Evaluation has become a regular practice in the management of science, technology and innovation (ST&I) programs. Several methods have been developed to identify the results and impacts of programs of this kind. Most ... -
O regime de ciclos de aprendizagem e a heterogeneidade de seus efeitos sobre a proficiência dos alunos
2014We evaluate the impact of non-retention policies over the distribution of academic achievement of elementary Brazilian public schools students. Results suggest a weak correlation between the adoption of non-retention ... -
O regime de ciclos de aprendizagem e a heterogeneidade de seus efeitos sobre a proficiência dos alunos
2013-12-05Neste artigo fazemos a avaliação do impacto da adoção do regime de ciclos ao longo da distribuição intra-classe de proficiência em matemática e em língua portuguesa. A população de interesse é o das crianças matriculadas ... -
A relação entre proficiência e dispersão de idade na sala de aula: a influência do nível de qualificação do professor
2013-12-06In this article we show that among elementary school students in Brazil there is a negative and significant relationship between within-class age dispersion and pupil’s proficiency. The relationship between the age-grade ...
