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2023This paper studies how in utero exposure to a large-scale climate adaptation program affects birth outcomes. The program built around one million cisterns in Brazil’s poorest and driest region to promote small-scale ... -
Climate adaptation policies and infant health: evidence from a water policy in Brazil
2023-03-02This paper studies how in utero exposure to a large-scale climate adaptation program affects birth outcomes. The program built around one million cisterns in Brazil’s poorest and driest region to promote small-scale ... -
The benefits of cognitive style versatility for collaborative work
2022-06-11A growing body of the literature shows the influence of cognitive styles, which capture the ways individuals share, encode, and process information, and their implications for collaboration. We build on this literature to ... -
Machine learning and network medicine approaches for drug repositioning for COVID-19
2021-01-14We present two machine learning approaches for drug repurposing. While we have developed them for COVID-19, they are disease-agnostic. The two methodologies are complementary, targeting SARS-CoV-2 and host factors, ... -
Machine learning prediction of side effects for drugs in clinical trials
2022-12-19Early and accurate detection of side effects is critical for the clinical success of drugs under development. Here, we aim to predict unknown side effects for drugs with a small number of side effects identified in ... -
Judicialização de conflitos socioambientais na Amazônia: impactos de projetos de desenvolvimento
2022Este sumário executivo é uma versão reduzida com os principais destaques do relatório de pesquisa em sua versão completa, apresentada ao Conselho Nacional de Justiça (CNJ). -
Programa Na Moral: relato de implementação do piloto do programa de prevenção da violência nas escolas
2023-04-28A adolescência é uma fase da vida caracterizada por maior impulsividade e propensão ao risco, a aspectos neurológicos associados a uma pior performance escolar, ao abuso de álcool e outras drogas e maior exposição à ... -
Effects of distances on newborn outcomes in Brazil
2023-07-26Travel distances can affect the delivery outcomes of pregnant women. Using detailed national data from the public health system (SUS), this paper identifies the effect of the distance to the place of delivery on infant ... -
Discrimination in the formation of academic networks: a field experiment on #EconTwitter
2023-01-13This paper assesses the results of an experiment designed to identify discrimination in users’ following behavior on Twitter. Specifically, we created fictitious bot accounts that resembled humans and claimed to be PhD ... -
Public Support for Nuclear Proliferation: Experimental Evidence from Brazil
2022How do mass publics in nonnuclear weapon states form their preferences over the acquisition of nu- clear weapons? We field a survey experiment in Brazil, a possessor of uranium-enrichment capabilities with a long history ... -
Artificial inteligence: technology applied to conflict management within the brazilian judiciary
2022The Brazilian Judiciary has made a relevant commitment regarding the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations 2030 Agenda, being recognized as the first Judiciary in the world to ... -
Mining Pareto-Optimal Counterfactual Antecedents With A Branch-And-Bound Model-Agnostic Algorithm
2021Mining counterfactual antecedents became a valuable tool to discover knowledge and explain machine learning models. It consists of generating synthetic samples from an original sample to achieve the desired outcome in a ... -
Expected Socioeconomic-Status-Based Discrimination Reduces Price Sensitivity Among the Poor
2022Low socioeconomic status (SES) consumers tend to be more price sensitive than their high-SES counterparts. Nonetheless, various economic-related burdens, such as mobility costs and lack of information, often hinder their ... -
Joint effects of shared and transformational leadership on performance in street-level bureaucracies: Evidence from the educational sector
2022Recent theories of public administration emphasize the importance of leadership as shared property. This research focuses on the role of the interaction between vertical and shared leadership in promoting agency performance. ... -
A prioridade absoluta dos direitos de crianças e adolescentes nas Cortes Superiores Brasileiras
2022A Constituição Federal (CF) de 1988 assegura a crianças e adolescentes, com absoluta prioridade, o direito à vida, à saúde, à alimentação, à educação, ao lazer, à profissionalização, à cultura, à dignidade, ao respeito, à ... -
Obesidade e consumo das famílias brasileiras: diagnóstico e implicações para políticas públicas
2022Esse relatório apresenta um detalhado estudo sobre prevalência da obesidade no Brasil, a partir de banco de dados conforme a Pesquisa Nacional de Saúde (PNS), edições de 2013 e 2019, produzida pelo IBGE, em convênio com o ... -
The association of maternal exposure to ambient temperature with low birth weight in term pregnancies varies by location: in Brazil, positive associations may occur only in the Amazon region
2022Exposure to ambient temperature has been linked to adverse birth outcomes in several regions, including the USA, Australia, China, countries in the Middle East, and European countries. To date, no studies were performed ... -
Prenatal exposure to wildfire-related air pollution and birth defects in Brazil
2022BBackground Birth defects are a major cause of poor health outcomes during both childhood and adulthood. A growing body of evidence demonstrated associations between air pollution exposure during pregnancy and birth defects. ... -
Increased preterm birth following maternal wildfire smoke exposure in Brazil
2022Preterm birth (PTB) complications are the leading cause of death among children under 5 years of age, responsible for approximately 1 million deaths in 2015, according to the World Health Organization. Those infants born ...
