This study aims to analyze the socioeconomic determinants of children’s individual health state in the countryside of Brazil, using data from PNAD 2008. Probit and ordered probit were used in the analysis. Main results show that elements, such as better health of parents, higher income, higher...

Homeowners use precaution technologies in order to supplement the protection offered by the Justice System. These technologies reduce expected victimization through reduction and diversion effects. This paper contributes to the literature evaluating the effects of private precaution technologies...

We evaluate the deterrence effects of the age of criminal responsibility on total drug trafficking and homicide crimes per age, based on a quasi-experiment generated by differences in punishment severity for these crimes prescribed by the Statute of the Child and Adolescent and by the Penal Code...

Este artigo avalia a sustentabilidade da política fiscal do Rio Grande do Sul a partir de um modelo de correção de equilíbrio com mudanças Markovianas de regime. São estudadas as dinâmicas de curto e de longo prazo da política fiscal do Estado no período compreendido entre 1970 e 2007....

In the Economic Theory, the study of the marriage market is relevant to understand how families are constituted and how changes in this market affect their decisions regarding consumption, savings, labor supply, and the human capital accumulation of its members. However, the marriage market is...

State decree nº 55.184 of April 15, 2020 gave discretionary power to the municipalities of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul to adopt or abolish restrictive measures to economic activities, in particular, related to the retail of goods and services with face-to-face customer service....

This article uses daily state information of the Social Isolation Index (SII) and recorded cases and deaths by COVID-19 for the period between March 13 and April 25, 2020 to estimate elasticities that relates these variables in Brazil. The results indicate that there was an adjustment period for...

This paper is an empirical study on the determinants of economic growth and population growth in Brazilian cities in the nineties. For this objective, it is used variables that represent the initial characteristics of these cities as Glaeser et alii (1995) and Glaeser e Shapiro (2003) papers....