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View article: Model Averaging in Semiparametric Estimation of Quantile Treatment Effects
Model Averaging in Semiparametric Estimation of Quantile Treatment Effects Open
View article: Texto para Discussão 3029
Texto para Discussão 3029 Open
O objetivo deste artigo é investigar a dinâmica da pobreza no Brasil, pois a frequência e o padrão dos movimentos de entrada e saída da pobreza têm consequências tanto para nosso entendimento dos processos de estratificação e mobilidade so…
View article: The labor market in Brazil, 2001–2022
The labor market in Brazil, 2001–2022 Open
Inequality reduction in Brazil between 2001 and 2014 resulted from factors that allowed for pro-poor economic growth.These included increases in the real value of the minimum wage, a larger supply of skilled workers, and declining informal…
View article: Issue Information
Issue Information Open
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View article: Identifying network ties from panel data: Theory and an application to tax competition
Identifying network ties from panel data: Theory and an application to tax competition Open
Social interactions determine many economic behaviors, but information on social ties does not exist in most publicly available and widely used datasets. We present results on the identification of social networks from observational panel …
View article: Brazil
Brazil Open
In this chapter, different sources of data on job-task content are used to investigate the importance of occupations and the intensity of routine tasks embodied in them to explain changes in employment and earnings in Brazil, in particular…
View article: Uniform inference for value functions
Uniform inference for value functions Open
View article: Identifying network ties from panel data: theory and an application to tax competition
Identifying network ties from panel data: theory and an application to tax competition Open
Social interactions determine many economic behaviors, but information on social ties does not exist in most publicly available and widely used datasets. We present results on the identification of social networks from observational panel …
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View article: Descriptive Representation in Politics: A Measurement Proposal and Application for Brazil
Descriptive Representation in Politics: A Measurement Proposal and Application for Brazil Open
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Frontmatter Open
View article: Racial Inequality in Brazilian Elections
Racial Inequality in Brazilian Elections Open
View article: Desigualdade Racial e de Gênero nas Eleições Municipais no Brasil (Racial and Gender Inequality in Municipal Elections in Brazil)
Desigualdade Racial e de Gênero nas Eleições Municipais no Brasil (Racial and Gender Inequality in Municipal Elections in Brazil) Open
View article: The changing nature of work and inequality in Brazil (2003–19): A descriptive analysis
The changing nature of work and inequality in Brazil (2003–19): A descriptive analysis Open
In this paper we use different sources of data on job task content to investigate the importance of occupations and the intensity of routine tasks embodied in them in explaining changes in employment and earnings in Brazil, in particular t…
View article: Labor Market Experience and Falling Earnings Inequality in Brazil: 1995–2012
Labor Market Experience and Falling Earnings Inequality in Brazil: 1995–2012 Open
The Gini coefficient of labor earnings in Brazil fell by nearly a fifth between 1995 and 2012, from 0.50 to 0.41. The decline in other measures of earnings inequality was even larger, with the 90-10 percentile ratio falling by almost 40 pe…
View article: Labor Market Experience and Falling Earnings Inequality in Brazil: 1995–2012
Labor Market Experience and Falling Earnings Inequality in Brazil: 1995–2012 Open
The Gini coefficient of labor earnings in Brazil fell by nearly a fifth between 1995 and 2012, from 0.50 to 0.41. The decline in other measures of earnings inequality was even larger, with the 90-10 percentile ratio falling by almost 40 pe…
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View article: Social Inequality from the perspective of the Racial Balance Index
Social Inequality from the perspective of the Racial Balance Index Open
View article: Racial inequality in the Brazilian labor market and the role of education
Racial inequality in the Brazilian labor market and the role of education Open
View article: Rewarding for Causal Impact: Integrating Policy Evaluation and Incentive Alignment in the Design of Cross-Sector Contracts
Rewarding for Causal Impact: Integrating Policy Evaluation and Incentive Alignment in the Design of Cross-Sector Contracts Open
View article: Decline in Wage Inequality in Brazil: A Survey
Decline in Wage Inequality in Brazil: A Survey Open
In the last decades, Brazil experienced a historical decline in its wage inequality level, particularly in the first decade of the 21st century. This paper reviews the literature that attempted to explain the observed pattern. It considers…
View article: Keeping the Dream Alive: The Role of Expectancy in Pay-for-Performance Programs
Keeping the Dream Alive: The Role of Expectancy in Pay-for-Performance Programs Open
This paper analyzes the conditions under which the expectation of being eligible for bonuses in group-based pay-for-performance programs (PFP) can yield enhanced performance in public services. We build three hypotheses and test them on a …
View article: GMM Quantile Regresson
GMM Quantile Regresson Open
View article: Synthetic Control Method: Inference, Sensitivity Analysis and Confidence Sets
Synthetic Control Method: Inference, Sensitivity Analysis and Confidence Sets Open
We extend the inference procedure for the synthetic control method in two ways. First, we propose parametric weights for the p-value that includes the equal weights benchmark of Abadie et al. [1]. By changing the value of this parameter, w…
View article: The labor market in Brazil, 2001–2015
The labor market in Brazil, 2001–2015 Open
From 2001 to 2015, Brazil experienced a profound reduction in income inequality. The commodities boom and some institutional changes in the early 2000s kickstarted the Brazilian labor market, increasing the quantity of formal jobs and earn…
View article: Decomposing Wage Distributions Using Recentered Influence Function Regressions
Decomposing Wage Distributions Using Recentered Influence Function Regressions Open
This paper provides a detailed exposition of an extension of the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition method that can be applied to various distributional measures. The two-stage procedure first divides distributional changes into a wage structure…
View article: Arvate_ET_AL_Appendix - Vol11, N2.pdf
Arvate_ET_AL_Appendix - Vol11, N2.pdf Open
View article: The labor market in Brazil, 2001–2015
The labor market in Brazil, 2001–2015 Open
An ongoing crisis threatens Brazil's recent increased earnings and its decreased inequality and gender and ethnic gaps
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base_prefeitos_municipio.tab Open
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do tables bpsr final.do Open