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We estimate the impact of having attended center-based daycare institutions during early childhood on Math test scores at the 4th grade of elementary school. Because enrollment in daycare centers may depend on unobservable character-istics of the family and the child, we build and estimate a...
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To assess the quality of school education, much of educational research is concerned with comparisons of test scores means or medians. In this paper, we shift this focus and explore test scores data by addressing some often neglected questions. In the case of Brazil, the mean of test scores in...
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Neste artigo documentamos haver entre alunos do ensino básico no Brasil uma relação negativa e significativa entre dispersão etária dentro das turmas e a proficiência individual. A relação entre a defasagem idade-série da criança e a sua proficiência escolar é usualmente explicada...
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Uma ferramenta importante na avaliação de políticas econômicas é a estimação do efeito médio de um programa ou tratamento sobre uma variável de interesse. Em geral, a atribuição do tratamento aos potenciais participantes não é aleatória, o que pode causar viés de seleção quando...
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Neste artigo fazemos a avaliação do impacto da adoção do regime de ciclos ao longo da distribuição intra-classe de proficiência em matemática e em língua portuguesa. A população de interesse é o das crianças matriculadas nas 4ª e 8ª séries (5º e 9º ano). Os resultados indicam...
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We study semiparametric two-step estimators which have the same structure as parametric doubly robust estimators in their second step. The key difference is that we do not impose any parametric restriction on the nuisance functions that are estimated in a first stage, but retain a fully...
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This paper argues that changes in the returns to occupational tasks have contributed to changes in the wage distribution over the last three decades. Using Current Population Survey (CPS) data, we first show that the 1990s polarization of wages is explained by changes in wage setting between and...
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This study documents how the presence of a woman in an executive political role affects the gender stereotype of women in politics. We use Brazilian electoral data and restrict our focus to close mayoral races (using an RDD design) in which the top two candidates are of opposite sexes. Our most...
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