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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 ... -
Assessing the impact of More Doctors Program on health care indicators
2018-10This paper aims to assess the short run effects of the More Doctors Program, launched by the Brazilian federal government in 2013. Using differences-in-differences approach with municipal data collected between 2010 and ... -
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 ... -
Câmbio e arrecadação municipal no Brasil: uma análise empírica de 2004 a 2007
2010-05-27Este trabalho busca testar empiricamente a associação estatística entre taxa de câmbio real local e arrecadação dos municípios brasileiros para o período de 2004 a 2007. O trabalho apresenta evidências empíricas sobre a ... -
College quality signaling and individual performance: effects on labor market outcomes after graduation
2019-05The association between college attendance and labor market premium is well-documented in existing literature. The signaling process plays a role in the explanation: college graduation serves as a signal for ability to the ... -
Descentralização fiscal e municipalização do ensino fundamental: impacto sobre os indicadores de desempenho educacional
2012-09-12Este trabalho procurou estimar os efeitos das mudanças ocorridas no sistema de educação fundamental brasileiro com relação à descentralização sobre o desempenho do setor, sendo o conceito de descentralização entendido de ... -
Economias de escala na oferta de serviços públicos de saúde: um estudo para os municípios paulistas
2010-08-19Este artigo avalia os efeitos das variáveis de escala na oferta de serviços públicos de saúde dos municípios paulistas, com o objetivo de investigar os possíveis efeitos do processo de descentralização dos serviços de saúde ... -
O efeito do estigma sobre os beneficiários de programas de transferência no Brasil
2010-06-01Este artigo investiga o impacto do estigma sobre as decisões econômicas dos indivíduos beneficiados por algum programa de transferência federal. Estigma é definido aqui como a desutilidade resultante em participar de algum ... -
Fiscal interactions and spillover effects of a federal grant to Brazilian municipalities
2015-05-27Qual o impacto de uma transferência incondicional a um município quando seu vizinho também recebe a transferência? Nesse artigo n os testamos se uma transferência do governo federal, o Fundo de Participação dos Municípios ... -
Health at Birth, short-run health effects and educational outcomes
2018-08This paper estimates the effects of birth weight on health and educational outcomes for Brazil using a twin fixed effect approach. The recent literature, mainly based on data from developed countries, has provided evidence ... -
Intergovernmental transfers and public spending in Brazilian municipalities
2015-03-02We estimate the effects of unconditional (full fiscal decentralization) versus conditional (partial fiscal decentralization) block grants on local public spending in Brazilian municipalities. Our results suggest that the ... -
Limited tax capacity and the optimal taxation of firms
2020-11Limited tax capacity creates evasion opportunities that weakens the production efficiency argument. Motivated by the SIMPLES tax reform in Brazil that led to heterogeneous responses on revenues and production costs of ... -
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 ... -
Optimal paternalistic health and human capital policies
2018-02-16We study optimal human and health linear policies when there is a paternalistic motive to overcome present bias problems of agents with heterogeneous cognitive skills. The paternalistic intervention rewards individuals for ... -
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 ... -
Spatial spillovers and political coordination in public health provision
2016-05-06We estimate the impact of the main unconditional federal grant (Fundo de Participaçãodos Municípios - FPM) to Brazilian municipalities as well as its spillover from the neighboring cities on local health outcomes. We ... -
A substituição de trabalhadores como instrumento para redução de gastos com salários: evidências para a indústria paulista
2010-08-12Labor churning is an important component of labor turnover in Brazil, which includes job reallocation between firms. The labor churning evolution in the nineties, at least for the industry sector in Sao Paulo, folows a ... -
Tax evasion, testosterone and personality traits
2018-02High testosterone levels in men may inhibit tax evasion. From a laboratory experiment with 121 young men, we present suggestive evidence that putative markers of prenatal and pubertal testosterone exposure and some personality ... -
Tax preferences and optimal income taxation
2020-11We develop a two-agent model where agents have preferences over consumption, leisure, independent and interdependent tax preferences - personal (own tax payments) and interpersonal (average tax payments in the economy). ... -
Taxing hard-to-tax markets
2014-02-12Tax enforcement costs constrain the government s ability to observe economic transactions, giving rise to hard-to-tax (HTT) markets. In these markets transactions are untaxed and consumers are better o¤ than in taxed ...
