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Bounds on functionals of the distribution treatment effects
2010-06-01Bounds on the distribution function of the sum of two random variables with known marginal distributions obtained by Makarov (1981) can be used to bound the cumulative distribution function (c.d.f.) of individual treatment ... -
Combinando estratégias para estimação de efeitos de tratamento
2013-12-05Uma ferramenta importante na avaliação de políticas econômicas é a estimação do efeito médio de um programa ou tratamento sobre uma variável de interesse. Em geral, a atribuição do tratamento aos potenciais participantes ... -
Electoral rules, political competition and fiscal spending: regression discontinuity evidence from brazilian municipalities
2010-06-16We exploit a discontinuity in Brazilian municipal election rules to investigate whether political competition has a causal impact on policy choices. In municipalities with less than 200,000 voters mayors are elected with ... -
Escolaridade e o diferencial de rendimentos entre o setor privado e o setor público no Brasil
2010-06-16We study the determinants of the public-private earning gap for different levels of schooling of Brazilian workers. First, using the current earnings as the variable of interest, it is estimated an earnings gap favorable ... -
Evidence of eligibility manipulation for conditional cash transfer programs
2013-12-09This paper assesses whether eligibility for conditional cash transfer programs have been manipulated, as well as the impact of this phenomenon on time allocation within households. To perform this analysis, we use data ... -
Gender stereotypes in politics: what changes when a woman becomes the local political leader?
2014-02-12This study documents how the presence of a woman in an executive political role affects the gender stereotype of women in politics. We use Brazilian electoral data and restrict our focus to close mayoral races (using an ... -
Identification and estimation of interventions using changes in inequality measures
2010-06-16This paper presents semiparametric estimators of changes in inequality measures of a dependent variable distribution taking into account the possible changes on the distributions of covariates. When we do not impose ... -
Occupational tasks and changes in the wage structure
2012-09-12This paper argues that changes in the returns to occupational tasks have contributed to changes in the wage distribution over the last three decades. Using Current Population Survey (CPS) data, we first show that the 1990s ... -
O regime de ciclos de aprendizagem e a heterogeneidade de seus efeitos sobre a proficiência dos alunos
2013-12-05Neste artigo fazemos a avaliação do impacto da adoção do regime de ciclos ao longo da distribuição intra-classe de proficiência em matemática e em língua portuguesa. A população de interesse é o das crianças matriculadas ... -
A relação entre proficiência e dispersão de idade na sala de aula: a influência do nível de qualificação do professor
2013-12-06In this article we show that among elementary school students in Brazil there is a negative and significant relationship between within-class age dispersion and pupil’s proficiency. The relationship between the age-grade ... -
The relationship between school violence and student proficiency
2010-07-01School violence has recently become a central concern among teachers, students, students' parents and policymakers. Violence can induce behaviors on educational agents that go against the goals of improving the quality of ... -
Semiparametric estimation and inference using doubly robust moment conditions
2013-12-05We study semiparametric two-step estimators which have the same structure as parametric doubly robust estimators in their second step. The key difference is that we do not impose any parametric restriction on the nuisance ... -
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 ...
