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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 ...
Open Data Index for cities 2018: challenges for open data at the local level
(2019-06-27)
The Open Data Index for cities was created by FGV DAPP (Department of Public Policy Analysis of FGV) and OKBr (Open Knowledge Brazil) to assess the level of data openness in the local level. The evaluation was conducted ...
Regulação da água no Brasil: estratégias atuais, desafios e uma nova possibilidade regulatória
(2019-05)
Os pressupostos e os instrumentos previstos no modelo brasileiro de gestão da água, são orientados pela racionalidade econômica, que tem como vantagem a utilização de critérios objetivos que permitem o uso do recurso de ...
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 ...
Populism on social media: a comparative analysis of Brazil, France and the United States
(2018-07-21)
Researchers emphasize the lack of cross-regional research on populism. The few analyses that exist identify two regional populist subtypes: exclusionary in Europe; and inclusionary in Latin America. However, since case ...
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) ...
Public transport and school location impacts on educational inequalities: Insights from São Paulo
(Elsevier Ltd, 2018)
In many large Latin American urban areas such as the São Paulo Metropolitan Region (SPMR), growing social and economic inequalities are embedded through high spatial inequality in the provision of state schools and affordable ...
