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Pesquisas recentes vêm encontrando que alunos da raça negra têm pior desempenho escolar que alunos da raça branca em testes cognitivos padronizados. Segregação racial é freqüentemente apontada na literatura internacional como uma das principais responsáveis por essa diferença. Nós...
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This paper studies a customs union agreement when governments are subject to the pressure of special interest groups that have better information about the competitiveness of the industries they represent. We focus on the agreement’s effect on the structure of political influence. When joining...
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We test the degree to which presidential approval ratings are related to a series of eco- nomic indicators, controlling for the political scenario in Brazil. Results, from 1999M9 until 2009M2, show that unemployment is the main variable that a®ects the ratings. There is also evidence that...
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This article explores theoretic and empirically the effects of inequality on the cost of electoral campaigns. An electoral competition model suggests that electoral campaigns costs increase with the level of inequality. That result stresses the need of careful campaign financing regulation in...
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As relações entre o progresso técnico e o mercado de trabalho são estudadas por diversos autores atualmente tanto no cenário nacional como internacional, apresentando inusitadamente resultados ambíguos. No âmbito nacional, alguns estudos encontraram evidências de que firmas...
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We develop and calibrate a model where differences in factor endowments lead countries to trade intermediate goods, and gains from trade reflect in total factor productivity. We perform several output and growth decompositions, to assess the impact that barriers to trade, as well as changes in...
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A verificação da eficiência do contrato futuro de açúcar é fundamental para que essa ferramenta de gerenciamento de risco seja eficaz em atender seu propósito de mitigar o risco dessas organizações que atuam no setor sucroalcooleiro. O presente trabalho avaliou a hipótese de...
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O objetivo deste artigo é discutir o papel da comunicação na condução da política monetária do Banco Central do Brasil. Constrói-se, inicialmente, um índice que traduz a informação qualitativa contida nas atas do COPOM num índice ordenado, semelhante ao construído por Rosa e Verga...
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This paper examines the impact of Brazil's Bolsa Escola (later renamed Bolsa Familia) program on children's progress in school in Brazil. The Bolsa program, which started in the 1990s and expanded rapidly in 2001 and 2002, provides monthly cash payments to poor households if their children...
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