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...

This comment corrects the errors in the estimation process that appear in Martins (2001). The first error is in the parametric probit estimation, as the previously presented results do not maximize the log-likelihood function. In the global maximum more variables become significant. As for the...