The long run PPP hypothesis was tested considering real effective exchange rate dataset for twenty countries which it was provided by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). By focusing on a nonlinear approach, the study tests IMF monthly dataset for general and specific nonlinearities....

Conforme Alesina & Angeletos (2005) e Alesina & Glaeser (2004), as preferências por redistribuição de renda variam sistematicamente entre as diversas regiões, promovendo diferenças significativas no tamanho do governo e na composição dos gastos públicos. Nesse contexto, esse artigo...

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 paper assesses the effects of income redistribution policies on "responsibilit -sensitive" fairness levels in major Latin American countries. In doing so, the following items are analyzed- i) the fairness rule described in Bossert (1995),Konow (1996), and Cappelen & Tungodden (2007) and; ii)...

O presente estudo se propõe a analisar o crescimento pró-pobre no Brasil e suas principais regiões geográficas e estados nos períodos 1987-1993, 1993-1999 e 1999-2007. A metodologia aqui adotada inova na análise na medida em que supera dois problemas comuns na literatura empírica que...

Following the suggestion of modern egalitarians, the model proposed by Alesina & Angeletos (2005) sets up a fairness rule based on composition of equality, designated by the weights of effort and luck. However, empirical evidence for a set of Latin American countries suggests that, unlike...

The purpose of this study is to measure intragenerational income mobility in Brazil and its several population subgroups within the period 1995-2005. To this end, the mobility axiomatic approach and dynamic instruments proposed by Aebi et al. (1999) are considered. Calculations of mobility...