This study examines how social circumstances influence the educational performance of students who provide the National Secondary Education Examination (ENEM). Initially, we adopt an approach nonparametric taking Roemer Identification Axiom assuming independence between circumstance and effort....

This note proposes a nonparametric estimation method controlled for endogeneity to calculate poverty elasticities for a panel of countries. Results show that usual estimates without control for endogeneity overestimate the growth elasticity of poverty.

O presente estudo calcula as elasticidades da pobreza em relação ao crescimento econômico e à desigualdade de renda para os estados e municípios brasileiros através de um método de estimação não paramétrico, visto em Horowitz (2012) e Ai & Chen (2003), e usado por Figueiredo e Laurini...

This paper aims to examine if the use of modern protocol for time series data analysis corroborates the results found previously in the literature. Specically, we inspect the non structuralists arguments developed in the 1970s about monetary policy eects. The contributions of this paper are-(a)...

This study measures unfair inequality in Brazil between 1995 and 2009. To achieve that, we used the statistical tool developed by Almås et al. (2011) and the concept of "responsibility-sensitive" fairness proposed by Bossert (1995),Konow (1996), and Cappelen & Tungodden (2007). The results...

This paper proposes the measurement of inequality of opportunity index (IOp) for Brazilian municipalities, based on data from the 2010 Demographic Census. With this, we create a base of municipal social (and state) information which can be added to the indicators provided by IPEA and João...

O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar a evolução da desigualdade injusta brasileira entre os anos de 1995 e 2009 utilizando uma abordagem não- paramétrica na estimação da função de rendimentos. Para tanto, adotou-se uma estratégia empírica baseada em quatro passos- i) empregou-se um...