Listagem por autor "Terra, Rafael"
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Accountability and yardstick competition in the public provision of education
2015-04-27This paper explores the institutional change introduced by the public disclosure of an education development index (IDEB, Basic Education Development Index) in 2007 to identify the e ect of education accountability on ... -
Altruism and participation costs in local redistribution: empirical evidence for Brazilian municipalities
2013Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role played by the geographic distance between the poor and non-poor in the local demand for income redistribution and, in particular, to provide an empirical test ... -
Cash-cum-in-kind transfers and income tax function
2016-02-25This paper investigates income tax revenues response to tax rate changes taking into consideration that cash-cum-in-kind transfers are used as a redistributive package to the community. First, we show that when cash and ... -
The effects of early childhood education on literacy scores using data from a new Brazilian assessment tool
2012The aim of this study was to identify the effects of early childhood education (ECE) on literacy scores of 2nd grade students in elementary school. To do that, the Provinha Brasil was administered in Sertãozinho-SP, in ... -
Evidências empíricas de interação espacial das políticas habitacionais para os municípios brasileiros
2014This paper aims to investigate the possible strategic behavior among municipalities using social housing policy data. Using data available in Munic (2004, 2005 and 2008) and panel data regression, the results confirmed ... -
Nature of transfers, income tax function and empirical estimation of elasticity of taxable income for Brazil
2016-11This article aims to estimate the elasticity of taxable income (ETI), taking into account the nature of transfers and their use as a redistribution package (involving cash and in-kind transfers) to households in Brazil. ...
