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...

The objective of the text is to analyse whether access to rights guaranteed by the Bill of Elderly occurs differently between the black and non-black population and between men and women. The first right established is the right to life which is violated by various causes, some is possible to be...

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...

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 paper calculates indexes for the funding levels of municipal retirement systems in Brazil using actuarial valuations and budget reports aiming to test hypotheses regarding the reasons which have driven underfunding in the past years notwithstanding the 1998 and 2003 reforms and the greater...

This paper attempts to examine the evolution of the financial conditions of Brazilian States ten years after the re-structuring of their financial debt. Re-structuring the financial debt was implemented according to a fiscal adjustment program which established targets to be periodically...

The objective of this text is to analyze the changes in inequality of household per capita income distribution in Brazilian states between 2004 and 2006 and estimate how much of the change is due to non-contributory income transfers from the federal government: Programa Bolsa Família (PBF) and...

This Discussion Paper describes the changes brought about by the 2019 reform in the federal Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and the developments in the states, the Federal District and municipalities. Regarding the states and the Federal District, we analyze the details of the new...

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...