This paper aims to apprehend the economic impact of the 2016 Olympic Games, measuring their effects on the gross domestic product (GDP) per capita of both Rio de Janeiro city and its metropolitan area, from 2012 to 2015. By using the synthetic control method, we found out that the games delayed...

Este trabalho se propõe a contribuir para o estudo da pobreza ao delinear a trajetória do pensamento científico sobre o tema. A questão veio a se constituir em objeto de investigação científica a partir da Revolução Industrial, quando a preocupação em medir sua dimensão e compreender...

Este trabalho se propõe a contribuir para o estudo da pobreza ao avaliar o potencial de métodos de pesquisa tradicionalmente utilizados e da Modelagem de Equações Estruturais (MEE) como instrumentos de análise “relacional” dessa questão social. Considerando-se que a evolução das...

This text aims to analyze the reform of secondary education in Brazil from a specific perspective: the potential to go beyond the traditional task of enabling students to go to university or to become career-ready by offering a broader and more balanced education that prepares them for entry...

The impact of growth in the cultural sector on the political formation and citizenship as well as the sector`s dynamic in relation to cultural policy - making we object of innumerous debates. A lot of criticism was directed to a society of mass consume and cultural industries and their effects...

We propose a new measure of regional mobility: the gradient measure of mobility. Besides the extension, it also captures the overall intensity of migration and is comprised of the marginal impacts of each locality over the population distri- bution. We compare it with standard measures of...

The present research aims to contribute to the area of poverty studies by appraising the potentiality of traditional research methods and the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) as proper instruments for analyzing poverty situations according to a relational perspective. The theoretical concepts...