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As taxas de homicídios cresceram consideravelmente no Brasil, ao longo deste século. Porém, esse crescimento não ocorreu de forma homogênea. Houve um grande aumento nas taxas de homicídios nos municípios pequenos, e uma certa estabilidade nos grandes ...
Felipe Montini +2 more
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The advance of the mathematization process in the Brazilian academy of Economics since the 1980s [PDF]
Looking at the economic discourse, we try to study in this article how has mathematization in economics advanced in Brazil in the last three decades. To see this, we have classified into several categories all articles published in three major economic ...
Luperi, Mauricio
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ABSTRACT This paper explores the role of geographical mobility in reducing overeducation risks in recent university graduates in Spain based on a sample from the Survey of Labour Insertion of University Graduates 2019 (EILU‐2019). We distinguish between different moments for mobility and whether it took place across regions within Spain or overseas. We
Nuria Legazpe +2 more
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Baseline report on the evaluation of Familias en Acción [PDF]
This report describes the survey that was carried out in 122 communities in rural Colombia by the consortium formed by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Econometria and SEI as the baseline for the impact evaluation of Familias en Acción, a programme to ...
Attanasio, O. +2 more
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Los pronósticos de variables económicas como la tasa de cambio o inflación son un instrumento esencial para las autoridades económicas, ya que basados en las expectativas de los analistas del mercado se toman decisiones que tienen efecto sobre la ...
Edgar Ricardo Jiménez M´éndez +2 more
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The Politics of Transparency: Analyzing Online Information Disclosure in Spanish Municipalities
ABSTRACT This study aims to evaluate the existence of a mimetic behavior model in local governments‘ online information disclosure using spatial econometrics. To analyze this behavior, the Bidimensional Transparency Index is employed, which is an e‐disclosure measurement instrument that measures the local government‘s transparency level through two ...
José‐Luis Zafra‐Gómez +3 more
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The three I's of downward income mobility: A directional subgroup decomposable measure
Abstract The Foster‐Greer‐Thorbecke class of indices and the TIP curve have become classical tools to measure poverty. In this paper we adapt these indices and curve to the income mobility literature and measure downward income mobility considering its three dimensions of incidence, intensity, and inequality.
Elena Bárcena‐Martín, Olga Cantó
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The influence of grade retention on students' competences in Spain
Abstract Grade retention is at the core of the education debate in Spain, to the extent that its impact on students' competences has not been assessed beyond correlation. Because of that, in the present study, we analyse the influence of grade retention on students' competences, using more than 146,000 students from 6 PISA cycles (2003–2018) and an ...
Luis Alejandro Lopez‐Agudo +2 more
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Assessing the benefits of robbery reduction: The case of a large Brazilian city
We estimate willingness to pay (WTP) for a first-order stochastic reduction on the risk of robbery at a large city in Brazil. We develop a structural choice model that nests a process of contingent valuation among non-degenerate lotteries and estimate it
Diego de Maria Andre +1 more
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Socioeconomic impacts of Russian invasion of Ukraine: A multiregional assessment for Europe
Abstract History shows that wars can be enormously disruptive of economic activity, especially international trade, national income, and global economic welfare. This article analyzes the impact on the European regions the Russian invasion of Ukraine using the largest and most updated multiregional input‐output model for Europe.
Miguel Ángel Almazán‐Gómez +3 more
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