Browsing by Author "Pinto, Cristine Campos de Xavier"
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Changes in test scores distribution for students of the fourth grade in Brazil: a relative distribution analysis for the years 1997 to 2005
2012-09-12To assess the quality of school education, much of educational research is concerned with comparisons of test scores means or medians. In this paper, we shift this focus and explore test scores data by addressing some often ... -
Cherry picking with synthetic controls
2016-06-08The synthetic control (SC) method has been recently proposed as an alternative method to estimate treatment e ects in comparative case studies. Abadie et al. [2010] and Abadie et al. [2015] argue that one of the advantages ... -
Empirical evidence of the effect of sanitation policies on health indicators for Brazilian municipalities
2011This paper investigates the effects of sanitation policies on health indicators in a panel of Brazilian municipalities. Specifically, we use DataSUS, the IBGE, and the SNIS to assess whether the indicators of sanitation ... -
The impact of daycare attendance on math test scores for a cohort of 4th graders in Brazil
2012-09-12We estimate the impact of having attended center-based daycare institutions during early childhood on Math test scores at the 4th grade of elementary school. Because enrollment in daycare centers may depend on unobservable ... -
Inference in differences-in-differences with few treated groups and heteroskedasticity
2015-10-27Differences-in-Differences (DID) is one of the most widely used identification strategies in applied economics. However, how to draw inferences in DID models when there are few treated groups remains an open question. We ... -
Inference in differences-in-differences with few treated groups and heteroskedasticity
2016We show that the usual inference methods used in Di fferences-in-Di fferences (DID) might not perform well with few treated groups and heteroskedastic errors. One important example is when there is variation in the number ... -
Revisiting the synthetic control estimator
2016-06-16VERSÃO ATUALIZADA DE ABRIL DE 2018 DISPONÍVEL. -
Sanitation and health: empirical evidence for Brazilian municipalities
2015-06-15The relationship between sanitation policies (access and quality) and health in Brazilian municipalities was estimated from 2003 to 2010 using a panel data model with corrections for missing data. The results suggest a ...
