This dissertation evaluates how gender affects college major choice in Brazil by estimating a discrete choice model with a nested logit specification. I use data from a Brazilian standardized exam taken by most seniors who ...

A democracia e a eficiência são objetivos compatíveis. Os extremos são muito ruins e perigosos.

Cutting off the intermediary and selling directly to consumers is an increasingly common strategy by manufacturers in many industries. Its impact on prices, profits and consumer welfare is theoretically ambiguous. It leads ...

A common tool to perform welfare analysis of unemployment insurance is the sufficient statistics approach, where the benefit is consumption smoothing across unemployment and employment, and the cost results from lower ...

We consider a multi-dimensional model of delegation in which a principal makes a decision so as to coordinate two agents, each with private information of their own impacting the outcomes of the decision and with one agent ...