Browsing Produção Intelectual em Bases Externas by Author "Ponczek, Vladimir Pinheiro"

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    • Efeitos da divisão municipal na oferta de bens públicos e indicadores sociais 

      Mattos, Enlinson; Ponczek, Vladimir Pinheiro
      2013-09-01
      This paper investigates the effects of the municipality secession occurred in Brazil in the last decades after the Constitution of 1988 on the supply of publicly provided goods and social indicators of those municipalities. ...

    • Evaluating the wage differential between public and private sectors in Brazil 

      Emilio, Daulins U.; Ponczek, Vladimir Pinheiro; Botelho, Fernando
      2012
      This paper uses a rotating panel of households to analyze wage differentials between public and private sectors in Brazil. Focusing on the transition of individuals between jobs available in the public and private sectors ...

    • Gender bias at the Brazilian superior labor court 

      Ponczek, Vladimir Pinheiro; Grezzana, Stefânia
      2012-03-24
      This paper examines the existence of gender bias within the Brazilian Superior Labor Court SLC(TST). Our analysis utilizes a database comprising all the lawsuits decided by the Brazilian Superior Labor Court SLC(TST) between ...

    • The impact of structured teaching methods on the quality of education in Brazil 

      Leme, Maria Carolina da Silva; Louzano, Paula; Ponczek, Vladimir Pinheiro; Souza, André Portela Fernandes de
      2012-10
      This paper estimates the impact of the use of structured methods on the quality of education for students in primary public school in Brazil. Structured methods encompass a range of pedagogical and managerial instruments ...

    • Income and bargaining effects on education and health in Brazil 

      Ponczek, Vladimir Pinheiro
      2011-03
      This study examines the impacts of the 1991 reform of Brazil's rural pension system on schooling and health indicators. We conclude that the reform had significant positive effects on schooling, especially on literacy for ...

    • Informality in an economy with active labour courts 

      Araújo, Luis Fernando Oliveira de; Ponczek, Vladimir Pinheiro; Souza, André Portela Fernandes de
      2016-06
      Job regulations and the justice branch interfere on several aspects of labour contracts. We build a model which explores the role of labour courts on the wage distribution in both formal and informal sectors. We obtain ...

    • Information, market incentives, and student performance: Evidence from a regression discontinuity design in Brazil 

      Camargo, Bráz Ministério de; Camelo, Rafael de Sousa; Firpo, Sergio Pinheiro; Ponczek, Vladimir Pinheiro
      2018
      We use a discontinuity on the test score disclosure rule for the National Secondary Education Examination in Brazil to test whether test score disclosure affects student performance in public and private schools. We find ...

    • Institutions and economic volatility: Democracy versus risk of expropriation 

      Ponczek, Vladimir Pinheiro; Mattos, Enlinson
      2009
      Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to decompose the effects of democracy and risk of expropriation on economic volatility. Design/methodology/approach: The authors follow Acemouglu et al. and use settler mortality in ...

    • The relationship between federal budget amendments and local electoral power 

      Firpo, Sergio Pinheiro; Ponczek, Vladimir Pinheiro; Sanfelice, Viviane
      2015-09
      The objectives of this paper are twofold. First, we investigate whether politicians use resources from the federal budget to maintain and expand their political capital. Second, we examine whether such strategy is rewarded ...