This paper investigates the main determinants of grade repetition using the Brazilian school census between 2007 and 2010. For the first time such a study is conducted with all students in a panel. We begin with a brief analysis of attrition in the school census and then estimate logistic...

In this paper, we discuss the methodological procedures and the computation of the value of travel time saving and the value of statistical life in road travels in Brazil. A stated preference experiment was carried out, in which we bring some innovations in order to control for hypothetical...

This Working Paper presents the evaluation of the qualitative criteria considered by cargo shippers when they contract freight services with logistic operators and transporters in Brazil. To do so, the data of a survey carried out by the Planning and Logistics Company (EPL), in which a set of...

This paper investigates the main determinants of grade repetition using the Brazilian school census between 2007 and 2010. For the first time such a study is conducted with all students in a panel. We begin with a brief analysis of attrition in the school census and then estimate logistic...

This Working Paper presents the evaluation of the qualitative criteria considered by cargo shippers when they contract freight services with logistic operators and transporters in Brazil. To do so, the data of a survey carried out by the Planning and Logistics Company (EPL), in which a set of...

In this paper, we discuss the methodological procedures and the computation of the value of travel time saving and the value of statistical life in road travels in Brazil. A stated preference experiment was carried out, in which we bring some innovations in order to control for hypothetical...

A tributação altera o equilíbrio entre demanda e oferta, onerando consumidores e firmas, beneficiando o governo e causando perda de bem-estar social. Mas, entre os agentes privados, quem paga a maior parte da conta? Firmas ou consumidores? Este artigo responde a esta pergunta para o mercado...

The aim of this paper is to estimate the effect of manufacturing Brazilian firms´ knowledge production on their conditional probability of internationalization. In this way, an empirical study using (i) microdata from World Bank Investment Climate, Brazil 2003 and (ii) nonlinear instrumental...

The relation between dynamics of poverty and labor market includes some issues as what conducts certain poor groups to escape of this condition and what induces other groups to enter in the poverty. Seeking to analyze these issues, the purpose of this article is to investigate the relation...

How pensions affect the schooling and labor of the household´s youngsters - The central question of this paper is to determine whether the component of the household income constituted by pensions affects the probability of the youngsters (15 to 21 years old) in the household being neither...