This paper examines whether there exists obstacles hindering women's ascension in the largest firms of the Brazilian manufacturing industry. In particular, we check whether gender matters in the time it takes to get a promotion to a managerial position. Once we control for covariate-dependent...

Neste trabalho nós estimamos o custo de bem-estar da violência letal no Brasil e analisamos como as heterogeneidades regionais, educacionais e de gênero afetam esse resultado. Na abordagem empregada, baseada em Rosen (1988) e Soares (2006), nós calculamos a disposição marginal a pagar para...

Mais armas causam mais ou menos crimes? Há os que advogam que a difusão das armas de fogo faz diminuir o seu preço no mercado ilegal, além de estimular soluções violentas aos conflitos interpessoais. Alguns autores, no entanto, apontam que as armas provocam um efeito de dissuasão ao...

The Brazilian public budget in health was R$ 53 bilion in 2003. What is the cost of treatment with the victims of the violence in Brazil? In this article we want answering this question. Two limitations in the available data hinder the calculation of the cost of the public health system with the...

Violence in Brazil is well known to be one of the biggest problems nowadays affecting the society. This problem incurs in several economic costs, in addition to all kinds of immeasurable costs due to life losses. For the economic costs, we can mention, for example, medical treatment costs,...

Rules of k names are frequently used methods to appoint individuals to office. They are two-stage procedures where a first set of agents, the proposers, select k individuals from an initial set of candidates, and then another agent, the chooser, appoints one among those k in the list. In...

The rule of k names can be described as follows: given a set of candidates for office, a committee chooses k members from this set by voting, and makes a list with their names. Then a single individual from outside the committee selects one of the listed names for the office. Different variants...

Este texto estima os retornos educacionais e diferenciais raciais na distribuição de salários das mulheres no Brasil, usando regressão quantílica com correção semiparamétrica para viés de seleção amostral. As estimativas mostram que os retornos educacionais são elevados e que não...