This paper examines the effects of better houses on infant health in the context of Brazil’s Minha Casa Minha Vida program, which built roughly 900,000 houses to poor households in Brazil during the period 2010-2017. We ...

In this work we propose a model that represents the relation between fish ponds, the mosquito population and the transmission of malaria. It has been observed that in the Amazonic region of Acre, in the North of Brazil, ...

O presente livro tem por objetivo contribuir para a avaliação do gasto tributário com o programa do Simples Nacional a partir da apresentação e da análise de três parâmetros: os poucos estudos publicados no Brasil sobre o ...

Indebted policymakers have a limited budget and are subject to inflationary shocks forcing them to either (i) increase interest rate to have inflation on the pre-announced target or (ii) accept higher inflation. We model ...

This paper shows how the adoption of an agricultural technology necessary to meet new environmental standards can prompt structural transformation in an emerging economy. We study the fast spread of mechanical harvesting ...

As despesas com aluguel representam uma parcela média de mais de 15 % do consumo total das famílias no Brasil, sendo que essa razão ultrapassa os 20% para famílias com renda inferior a dois salários mínimos (IBGE, 2019 ) ...

O presente relatório contém: (i) levantamento das iniciativas de Big Data nas cinco cidades do Projeto Big Data para o Desenvolvimento Urbano Sustentável, a partir de informações de fontes primárias e de fontes secundárias; ...

We study real estate markets where squatting is tolerated by authorities and a dual (formal and informal) housing market emerge. We develop a housing supply model in which geographical constraints and squatting play distinct ...

In this paper, we introduce a new class of decision rules called Constant Depth Decision Rules (CDDRs) for Multistage Stochastic Convex Programs (MSCP) depending on a parame- ter Mi called the depth of the decision rules. ...

Esse relatório analisa o risco de importação de COVID-19 para as microrregiões brasileiras decorrente da presença de transmissão sustentada nos dois maiores centros urbanos, Rio de Janeiro e São Paulo e os efeitos de ...