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Bottom-up accountability and public service provision: evidence from a field experiment in Brazil
(2019-09-04)
Does grassroots participation improve public service delivery? We study the e ect of a mobile phone application that allows citizens to monitor school construction projects in Brazilian municipalities. The app provides a ...
Unveiling physicians’ choice of practice location: evidence from observed migration
(2019-03-22)
This paper exploits the revealed preferences of all generalist physicians graduated in Brazil between 2001 and 2013 to examine the factors influencing their decision of practice location after graduation. We estimate ...
Investment capacity and the electoral marketplace: evidence from Brazil
(2019)
The importance of money in elections is a hallmark of contemporary democracies. In this paper, we study how investment capacity, defined as the resources remaining after the municipality perform the mandatory expenditures, ...
Legislature size and welfare: evidence from Brazil
(2019)
What is the effect of legislature size on public service provision? While the literature relates legislature size to representation and government expenditure, its implications for welfare remain understudied. In this ...
Bots and Brazil´s electoral legal system: 2018 elections
(FGV DAPP, 2019-01)
In democratic elections, voting usually comprises two fundamental empowering aspects: electors vote for candidates because they agree with their projects and have a positive assessment of their background or party, and/or ...
Bots, social networks and politics in Brazil
(FGV DAPP, 2018-03-15)
New developments in the analysis of FGV DAPP with data on the 2014 elections have shown the use of fake profiles to share content in the campaigns of Aécio Neves (PSDB), Dilma Rousseff (PT) , and Marina Silva (former PSB) ...
Electoral systems, competition, and incentives for corruption
(2018)
What is the effect of electoral rules on political corruption? While the influence of electoral systems on accountability and representation has been widely studied, the link between electoral systems and corruption remains ...
Iniciativas para diminuir o número de cesáreas excessivas no Brasil: Projeto Parto Adequado
(2017-10-10)
Nas últimas décadas, a cesárea tornou-se a principal via de parto no Brasil, especialmente em maternidades e hospitais do sistema privado de saúde. Diversas iniciativas, públicas e privadas, vêm sendo adotadas pelo país ...
Consumers’ inflation expectations in Brazil
(2017)
This paper investigates what are the main components of consumer’s inflation expectations. We combine the FGV’s Consumer Survey with the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) indices on inflation (IPCA and ...
A critical assessment of Brazilian manufacturing competitiveness in foreign markets
(2017)
Purpose – This study aims to examine the competitiveness of firms operating in the emerging economy of Brazil. This study examines the current perception of Brazilian business leaders regarding the level of competitiveness ...
