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Aumentando a eficácia e a eficiência da avaliação do ensino superior: uma análise do uso do Enem como alternativa ao Enade para ingressantes
(2009)
A aplicação do Enade (Exame Nacional de Avaliação do Desempenho dos Estudantes) para alunos ingressantes trouxe um significativo avanço para a avaliação do ensino superior no país: a possibilidade do cálculo de uma medida ...
Delegation dilemmas: coalition size, electoral risk, and regulatory design in new democracies
(2009)
This paper investigates determinants of regulatory agency design in multiparty coalition governments. Current research has mainly focused on US institutions and its findings are therefore context specific. We find electoral ...
Education production efficiency: evidence from Brazilian universities
(Centro de Estudos de Política e Economia do Setor Público (CEPESP), 2009)
This paper investigates how efficient are the Higher Education Institutions (HEI) in Brazil, and which institution – public or private – is more efficient in the production of knowledge. In addition, it was also verified ...
Mensurando o desempenho e a eficiência dos gastos estaduais em educação fundamental e média
(Estudos Econômicos, 2009)
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the relative performance and efficiency of Brazilian states in the provision of basic and secondary education. In order to do so performance indicators are initially built using ...
Opportunistic political cycles and social spending: an examination of transition and consolidated democracies in Latin America
(2009)
In this paper, we show that education, health and social security expenditures did not increase during elections. Based on a panel of fifteen Latin American democracies from 1973 to 2000, we show that there are important ...
Cities and social equity: inequality, territory and urban form: detailed report
(London School of Economics and Political Science, 2009)
Cities and Social Equity is a report by the Urban Age research team with commissioned pieces from Ipsos MORI, United Nations Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (ILANUD), the Centre for ...
Os salários dos professores públicos são atrativos no Brasil?
(2008)
The relation between teacher wages and their students’ performance is one of the great discussions in economics of education literature. However, international literature converges to the idea that teachers’ relative wages ...
Regulation and informal settlements in Brazil: a quasi-experiment approach
(2008)
This paper discusses the relation between urban norms and informality and presents some evidence for Brazil using a quasi-experimental approach. Using a theoretical framework that relates the supply of house elasticity ...
Estimating the impact of participatory budget on observed outcomes
(2008)
This paper tests whether the Participatory Budget (OP) adopted by some municipalities in Brazil had any impact on the municipality efficiency or on income distribution using a quasi experimental approach. The results are ...
On the marginal social cost of cash-cum-in-kind transfers
(2008)
This paper investigates the marginal social cost of cash-cum-in-kind transfers (MSCKT). Based on a generalization of Wildasin (1984), we characterize that the marginal social cost of public funds depends on the relation ...
