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Spatial distribution of local economic performance: empirical analysis of employment, income and poverty in Brazilian municipalities
2007Local economies within a country differ substantially in their economic performance and such differences might persist over long periods of time. Increasing concern with regional disparities and poverty levels have prompted ... -
Regulation and informal settlements in Brazil: a quasi-experiment approach
2008This 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 ... -
An archipelago of excellence?: autonomous capacity among Brazilian state agencies
2012-02Drawing on the Brazilian case, this paper develops a new measure of state capacity for evaluating the performance of specific bureaucratic agencies within national states. The measure, which is made possible by the rising ... -
Do political budget cycles differ in Latin American democracies?
2010We test for political budget cycles in a panel of eighteen Latin American democracies from 1973 to 2008. Recent studies have argued that the pattern of deficit cycles in a large cross-section of countries is driven by the ... -
Opportunistic political cycles and social spending: an examination of transition and consolidated democracies in Latin America
2009In 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 ... -
Social spending and elections: an examination of Latin American third wave democracies, 1980-2008
2011-08During the period in which Latin America underwent the most lasting and widespread wave of democratization, we test whether governments targeted increases in social spending to coincide with presidential elections in a ... -
Accountability behind closed doors?: legislator power and voting procedures
2010Accountability is important as a means of punishing wrongdoers, improving public confidence in the political system, and deterring potential lawbreakers. But to what extent is the likelihood of accountability an outcome ... -
Altruísmo e competição inter-geracional: o impacto do envelhecimento da população nos gastos em educação dos municípios brasileiros
2008In this work, we tried to test two hypotheses for the Brazilian municipalities on the relationship between the aging of the population an educational expenditures. The first is that the increase of the elderly share reduces ... -
Estimating the impact of participatory budget on observed outcomes
2008This 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 ... -
Electoral accountability and governors´ election in Brazil, 1990-2006
2010The scholarship on the accountability of local incumbents usually focuses on two main hypotheses. The first, the sub-national vote, argues that voters rely mostly on information on incumbent’s local performance. The second ... -
Indicadores para avaliar o comportamento parlamentar como resultante de eleições
2009Este artigo propõe a utilização de três indicadores adaptados da Economia Regional a fim de caracterizar a concentração de votos em eleições proporcionais em distritos multimembros. Os índices propostos são confrontados ... -
Determinants of patronage and policy-making positions in the Brazilian federal bureaucracy, 2007-2011
2011Research on the relationship between the Executive and the Legislative in Brazil has generated a voluminous literature that sheds important light on our understanding of the policy-making process in Brazil and the relationship ... -
Political budget cycles and democratization in Latin America, 1973-2008
2010We test for political budget cycles in a panel of eighteen Latin American democracies from 1973 to 2008. Recent studies have argued that the pattern of deficit cycles in a large cross-section of countries is driven by the ... -
Economic performance and political coordination in Portugal’s "dry" political system
2016-01We posit that sound, growth-promoting economic policy is more likely to be formulated when major political players have incentives to cooperate. Using Portugal as an arena to test this theory, we provide an in depth analysis ... -
Ad-valorem tax incidence and after-tax price adjustments: evidence from Brazilian basic basket food
2010We examine price responses to ad-valorem tax changes in the Brazilian food market over the period 1994-2008. In particular, we investigate VAT incidence for ten goods representing basic basket food in 16 states. Our results ... -
Legislative organization and executive success rate at the subnational level: a comparison of Brazil and Germany, 1990-2010
2011How does parliamentary organization affect the legislative success rate of the Executive in presidential and parliamentary systems at the subnational level? Why are some governors much more successful than others even ... -
Density and scattered development: a tale of 10 Cities
2012Themes such as sprawl, compact city, leapfrogging, have been out of the economics literature for a long time despite the great interest of urban planners and citizens in general. This is changing fast since the 2000s. The ... -
The limited power of information: monitoring and corruption deterrence-evidence from a random-audits program in Brazil
2011-05While corruption is documented to have high social costs, the mechanisms that enable and deter corruption are not entirely understood. This paper takes advantage of the introduction of a random-audits program in Brazil, ... -
Cities and social equity: inequality, territory and urban form: summary report
2009Cities 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 ... -
The impact of public transport expansions on informality: the case of the São Paulo metropolitan region
2015The São Paulo Metropolitan Region (SPMR) displays a strong core-periphery divide. Central areas concentrate the bulk of formal jobs while peripheral areas display high incidence of informal employment. This pattern is ...
