This article examines definitions, characteristics of the survey process, special cases such as incest and polygamy and the consistency of data on household arrangements collected by the Brazilian National Household Surveys (PNAD) between 1992 and 1999. The main conclusion is that PNAD's data is...

This paper considers inflation forecasting for a vast panel of countries. We combine the information from common factors driving global inflation as well as country-specific inflation in order to build a set of different models. We also rely on new advances in the Machine Learning literature. We...

The article analyses the importance of the studies on family composition and organization to the social policymaking in Latin America. Different ways of assessing families in social programs are discussed leading to the conclusion, that knowledge about family patterns is important as the...

The article analyzes the use of some theories created to explain the trajectory of the welfare state on the developed countries of North America and Western Europe on the case of underdeveloped countries. It emphasizes that due to differences between developed and underdeveloped countries in...