This paper presents the results of a research on the social housing policy in United Kingdom, focusing on the case of England. Section 1, presents an effort to summarize the history of this policy. Section 2, approaches social housing policy in England in now days, through its main programs, as...

Agriculture constitutes an activity intrinsically linked, in the collective imagination, to the rural world. Such economic activities are also, however, carried out in cities, and their mediations. This study aims to provide a current overview of AUP in Brazil and evaluate the challenges...

We study the global dynamics of the fully stochastic nonlinear version of the New Keynesian model and analyze the efficacy of various policies as equilibrium selection tools in this context. First, we unveil a new class of equilibria, characterized by selffulfilled beliefs about output...

Using data from the 2017-2018 Household Budget Survey, the work investigates the demographic, geographic and socioeconomic determinants of Brazilian families' expenditure on acquiring health insurance plans for their members. A distinctive characteristic of the data is that most Brazilian...

Do households value access to free health insurance when making labor supply decisions? We address this question by exploiting the 2002 introduction of universal health insurance in Mexico (Seguro Popular, SP), that broke the link between access to health care and job contract. Reduced-form...

We discover sentiment-driven equilibria in popular models of imperfect risk sharing. In these equilibria, sentiment dynamics behave like uncertainty shocks, in the sense that self-fulfilled beliefs about volatility drive aggregate fluctuations. Because such fluctuations can decouple from the...

In this paper, we argue that adjustments in non-wage compensation are empirically relevant and have important implications for understanding the effects of labor supply shocks. We examine the labor market impacts of internal migration in Brazil through a shift-share approach, which combines...

Due to local climatic characteristics, water availability in the semi-arid region, a large territory that covers more than one thousand and four hundred municipalities in Brazil, is comparatively low. Initiatives by the federal public authorities to alleviate the consequences of low availability...

This study explores the intersection between circular economy (CE) and international trade (IT), highlighting the potential of trade policies and instruments to promote CE on a global scale. The text addresses, directly or indirectly, four fundamental questions: how CE promotes IT, how IT...

The objective of this investigation was to analyze how the financing structure of the National Program for Strengthening Family Farming of Family Farming in the Central-West Region is characterized in terms of its location and regionalization aspects in the period from 2013 to 2023. Thus, the...