This text aims to offer three contributions to the study of Brazilian public expenditures on health and education. First by constructing annual and bimonthly estimates of these expenditures in order to allow time series analyses of their historical evolution. Second by analysing the relative...

This study sought to analyze the impact of the National School Food Program (Programa Nacional de Alimentação Escolar - PNAE), more precisely the insertion of family farming in the supply of food products to schools (Law No. 11,947/2009), on the grades of elementary school students, using data...

Throughout this article, we analyze and discuss the main trends in recent locational patterns of Brazilian industry. Taking into account the overall economic growth as well as in the industry sector since the beginning of XXI century, many structural changes related to the occurrence of...

This study analyzed the effect of Fundeb on the Saeb results of the municipalities by estimating a spatial panel model with information from 2007 and 2017, which contemplates the 10 years of the fund's implementation. The results indicated that the increase of 10% in the Fundeb amount per...

Income contingent loans (ICLs) are a financial tool that optimizes the transactional efficiencies involved in the government monopoly in taxing personal income. It protects the borrowers against periods of low income, as instalments vary according to fluctuations in their incomes over the...

This study evaluated the impact of Fies on the total time and delay in the completion of higher education of students enrolled in presential courses of private institutions, based on information of INEP from 2007 to 2017. Estimates of the Average Treatment Effect on Treated indicated that...

This study aims to analyze the quantile treatment effect of Prouni on the students' Enade grades from 2015 to 2017. The results indicated that the impact of the program was positive throughout the grades distribution, mainly for students who received full scholarship. The impact was also greater...

Ensuring career enhancement and good working conditions for schoolteachers are vital to guarantee learning opportunities for all, as recons the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and Brazilian's National Education Plan (PNE). The present study analyses indicators related to schoolteachers,...

The new organization of upper secondary level in Brazil introduced by the law number 13.415 of 2017 began to be implemented in 2022. The present paper focused in analyzing the process involving the translation of national directives to local curriculums and their implementation is selected high...