[PDF] Top 20 Three essays in urban economics

... Brazilian urban environ- ment. In the first chapter the aim identify and to measure the external returns to human capital in Brazil using information from the Ministry of Labor’s Annual Social ... See full document

... differences in the distribution of treated and non-treated units, making the probability of treatment equal between the matched pairs, as if there had been a random assignment (Caliendo and Kopeinig, ...score ... See full document

... patterns in returns and excess re- turns over the riskless interest rate, implying a similar dynamics for expected returns and expected excess returns, I show that this does not hold in the BY ... See full document

... distinguish three types of leaves: internal, temporary inter- national, and permanent international leaves (hereafter, permanent and temporary ...decisions. In order to explain the permanent and temporary ... See full document

... legislators in Brazilian ...councilors in the municipal legislative branch in Brazil has been in discus- sion in the different government institutions and has been modified by the ... See full document

... enrolled in school at the age of 5 years or less) presented a higher literacy score than those who did not attend this ...difference in mean literacy scores between children who entered school at the ages ... See full document

... produced in Schoellman (2012). First, education quality in Brazil ranges from ...numbers in the education quality interval, however, a more appropriate method for comparing the two distributions is ... See full document

... to urban violence on grade retention and on-time grade completion of children attending elementary schools in Rio de Janeiro, ...schools in the city (n = 256,961), we find that a one standard ... See full document

... fall in income inequality in ...improve in income distribution, especially since ...reductions in the gender, race, informality and urban-rural wage gaps, conditional on human capital ... See full document

... institutions in transaction cost economics, focused on the establishment of rules and mechanisms that allows the protection of business activity, several studies addressed the absence of such ... See full document

... scores in Madagascar, the Dominican Republic and ...degrees in California (USA) overestimate salaries by more than 100%, and Reuben et ...All three studies find that novel labour market information ... See full document

... first order stochastic reduction on the risk of crimes for residents of a large and dense urban center. Inspired by Cameron and DeShazo (2013), we develop a simple structural choice model that nests a process of ... See full document

... changed in the past decades raising questions to be asked by social scientists and their impacts on family ...units. In this thesis we aim to analyze how agents’ decisions on marriage and education can be ... See full document

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... involved in accidents and other external ...gains in mortality. We relate to three different branches of the emergency care ...drops in ER usage for different conditions and Alexander et ... See full document

... sited in the northwest of São Paulo, Brazil and it is 554 km away from São Paulo ...adult, in some risk situations ...warning. In case of repeated negligence, other measures should be employed such ... See full document

... discussed in the literature, the most important are the financial constraints ...participation in innovative activities; but policy-makers will play a determinant role in the design of accurate ... See full document

... presents three essays that investigate three relevant issues about agri- cultural markets: farmers’ choice of hedge; government optimal taxation; and government farm program reactions to price ... See full document

... models, in which domestic variables are related to country-specific foreign variables that match the relative importance of the rest of the world for the country under consideration, providing an effective way to ... See full document

... policies in an asymmetric- information context was pioneered by Ulph (1977) and Hare and Ulph (1979) who extended the optimal taxation approach of Mirrlees (1971) to address the problem of determining the optimal ... See full document