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“I am going to break this logic of fear!”: Activism and subversive care at the periphery of Fortaleza, Brazil

The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 141-150, June 2023., 2023
Abstract Based on ethnographic work conducted between 2015 and 2022 at the periphery of Fortaleza, in Northeast Brazil, this article analyzes the work of community activists as a form of subversive care. Women activists, many of whom work for the local public clinics, as social workers with local NGOs, or as schoolteachers, challenge dominant ...
Luminiţa‐Anda Mandache
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Earnings inequality and dynamics in the presence of informality: The case of Brazil

Quantitative Economics, Volume 13, Issue 4, Page 1405-1446, November 2022., 2022
Using rich administrative and household survey data spanning 34 years from 1985 to 2018, we document a series of new facts on earnings inequality and dynamics in a developing country with a large informal sector: Brazil. Since the mid‐1990s, both inequality and volatility of earnings have declined significantly in Brazil's formal sector.
Niklas Engbom, Gustavo Gonzaga, Christian Moser, Roberta Olivieri   +3 more
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Eating pizza in prison

American Ethnologist, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 221-233, May 2022., 2022
ABSTRACT Police work is obviously a question of pursuing subjects. In postslave societies, one figure dominates; police are always after the young Black man. Meanwhile, another distinctive subject of policing exists. In São Paulo, Brazil, police detectives are also worried about the failing White father.
GRAHAM DENYER WILLIS
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Prevalence and temporal trends in prepregnancy nutritional status and gestational weight gain of adult women followed in the Brazilian Food and Nutrition Surveillance System from 2008 to 2018

Maternal &Child Nutrition, Volume 18, Issue 1, January 2022., 2022
Abstract Prepregnancy body mass index (BMI) and gestational weight gain (GWG) are the most investigated indicators of maternal nutritional status, which is a modifiable factor that plays a vital role in maternal and infant health. This study describes prepregnancy BMI and GWG of 840,243 women with 2,087,765 weight observations in the Brazilian Food and
Thaís Rangel Bousquet Carrilho, Kathleen M. Rasmussen, Jennifer A. Hutcheon, Ronaldo Fernandes Santos Alves, Dayana Rodrigues Farias, Nathalia Cristina Freitas‐Costa, Mylena Maciel Gonzalez, Mônica Araújo Batalha, Gilberto Kac   +8 more
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Removing the bad apples: A simple bioinformatic method to improve loci‐recovery in de novo RADseq data for non‐model organisms

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Volume 12, Issue 5, Page 805-817, May 2021., 2021
Abstract The restriction site‐associated DNA (RADseq) family of protocols involves digesting DNA and sequencing the region flanking the cut site, thus providing a cost and time‐efficient way for obtaining thousands of genomic markers. However, when working with non‐model taxa with few genomic resources, optimization of RADseq wet‐lab and bioinformatic ...
José Cerca, Marius F. Maurstad, Nicolas C. Rochette, Angel G. Rivera‐Colón, Niraj Rayamajhi, Julian M. Catchen, Torsten H. Struck, Robert Freckleton   +7 more
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The relationship between different social expenditure schemes and poverty, inequality and economic growth

International Social Security Review, Volume 73, Issue 2, Page 101-123, April/June 2020., 2020
Abstract In this article, we study how social expenditure is related to poverty, income inequality and GDP growth. Our main contribution is to disentangle these relationships by the following social expenditure schemes: 1) “old age and survivors”, 2) “incapacity”, 3) “health”, 4) “family”, 5) “unemployment and active labour market policies” and 6 ...
Emile Cammeraat
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Health care service for families with children at early risk of developmental delay: an All Our Families cohort study

Developmental Medicine &Child Neurology, Volume 62, Issue 3, Page 338-345, March 2020., 2020
Aim This study examined children’s health care service use, mothers’ workforce participation, and mothers’ community engagement based on children’s risk of developmental delay. Method We used data from the All Our Families study, a prospective pregnancy cohort.
Matthew J Russell, Shainur Premji, Sheila Mcdonald, Jennifer D Zwicker, Suzanne Tough   +4 more
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Desigualdade na distribuição do trabalho entre as famílias e vulnerabilidade à pobreza no Nordeste urbano

Revista Brasileira de Estudos Regionais e Urbanos, 2023
Esta pesquisa investiga o nível de polarização da oferta de trabalho familiar no Brasil urbano em 2018. Para isso, são utilizados os microdados da Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios Contínua (PNAD-C), e computadas as taxas de famílias ...
Eduarda da Silva Nascimento, Danyella Juliana Martins de Brito   +1 more
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Organização do trabalho familiar do espaço rural paraense: novos arranjos na organização do trabalho e na gestão das unidades de produção. [PDF]

, 2017
O objetivo do artigo é apresentar uma interpretação acerca da organização do trabalho dos membros das famílias em unidades de produção na comunidade Nossa Senhora de Lourdes identificando novas estratégias de produção e reprodução familiar frente ao ...
ALVES, K. dos S., MOTA, D. M. da
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O equilíbrio trabalho/família: revisão de literatura

Gestão e Desenvolvimento, 2014
O equilíbrio entre a vida profissional e familiar é um dos grandes desafios dos países em desenvolvimento e uma das temáticas com maior destaque na União Europeia.
Susana Pereira, Célia Ribeiro
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