Listagem Produção Intelectual em Bases Externas por autor "Souza, André Portela Fernandes de"
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Birth order, child labor, and school attendance in Brazil
2008-09This paper examines the effects of birth order on intra-household allocations as evidenced by the child labor incidence and school attendance of Brazilian children. Previous studies have found that earlier born children ... -
The causal impacts of child labor law in Brazil: some preliminary findings
2017-03-01This paper investigates the causal impact of the change in law of December 1998 that increased the minimum legal age of entry into the labor force from 14 to 16. We used a difference-in-differences (DD) approach to estimate ... -
Earnings inequality in Brazil: is it permanent or transitory?
2007-11-01This paper seeks to analyze the dynamic behavior of prime-age male workers’ earnings inequality in the formal labor market of the State of S˜ao Paulo in the years 1990-1998. The aim is to fit an econometric model of unobserved ... -
The economics of child labour
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The impact of structured teaching methods on the quality of education in Brazil
2012-10This 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 ... -
Informality in an economy with active labour courts
2016-06Job 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 ... -
Lighting and homicides: evaluating the effect of an electrification policy in rural Brazil on violent crime reduction
2017Introduction: This study estimates the effects of lighting on homicides in rural areas of developing countries. Methods: We use an IV strategy by exploring the LUZ PARA TODOS or Light for All (LPT) program that was adopted ... -
Medindo a qualidade das escolas: evidências para o Brasil
2015-09-01In this paper, we propose the creation of an index that reflects the quality of school associated with school factors and avoids two problems found in previous studies: indicators of proficiency level that reflect more the ... -
Reforma da previdência social e custo de transição: simulando um sistema universal para o Brasil
2006-12-01This article presents a proposal to reform Brazil's pension system. The new system is based on the principles of actuarial fairness, incentive to formalization, universalization and simplification of the social security ... -
Trends in child labor and the impact on health in adulthood in Brazil from 1998 to 2008
2015-05-01There is little evidence in Brazil on the impact of child labor on health status in adulthood. This study aimed to investigate trends in child labor in Brazil and estimate the long-term effects of child labor on the health ... -
(Un)sustainability and reform of the social security system in Brazil: a generational accounting approach
2007In this paper we apply the Generational Accounting methodology for the Brazilian public sector and for the two social security systems of the country RGPS (private sector workers system) and RPPS (civil servants system). ...
