Browsing by Author "Ponczek, Vladimir Pinheiro"
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Income and bargaining effects on education and health in Brazil
2011-03This study examines the impacts of the 1991 reform of Brazil's rural pension system on schooling and health indicators. We conclude that the reform had significant positive effects on schooling, especially on literacy for ... -
Informal wages in an economy with active labor courts
2012-09-12In most developing countries, job regulations and the justice branch interfere on several aspects of labor contracts. Inspired by this fact, we build a model that explores the role of labor courts in the determination of ... -
Informality in an economy with active labour courts
2016-06Job regulations and the justice branch interfere on several aspects of labour contracts. We build a model which explores the role of labour courts on the wage distribution in both formal and informal sectors. We obtain ... -
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 ... -
Institutions and economic volatility: Democracy versus risk of expropriation
2009Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to decompose the effects of democracy and risk of expropriation on economic volatility. Design/methodology/approach: The authors follow Acemouglu et al. and use settler mortality in ... -
Municipalities secession and uncertainty on public goods provision
2010-07-01This paper investigates the causes of municipalities secession in Brazil. The theoretical model proposes that the median voter is not fully informed about the efficiency effect of secession on public good provision and ... -
New evidence of the causal effect of family size on child quality in a developing country
2012-09-12This paper presents new evidence of the causal effect of family size on child quality in a developing-country context. We estimate the impact of family size on child labor and educational outcomes among Brazilian children ... -
Parâmetros e subsídios para a reparação dos danos socioeconômicos na Cadeia da Pesca do Camarão na Praia do Suá em Vitória (ES)
2020O presente documento tem por objetivo oferecer subsídios e parâmetros ao processo de reparação dos danos socioeconômicos decorrentes do rompimento da Barragem de Fundão, relativos à cadeia produtiva da pesca do camarão, ... -
The relationship between federal budget amendments and local electoral power
2015-09The objectives of this paper are twofold. First, we investigate whether politicians use resources from the federal budget to maintain and expand their political capital. Second, we examine whether such strategy is rewarded ... -
Segmentation in the Brazilian labor market
2007-07-20This paper measures the degree of segmentation in the brazilian labor market. Controlling for observable and unobservable characteristics, workers earn more in the formal sector, which supports the segmentation hypothesis. ... -
Test score disclosure and school performance
2012-09-12In this paper we test whether the disclosure of test scores has direct impacts on student performance, school composition and school inputs. We take advantage of the discontinuity on the disclosure rules of The National ...
