This text aims to offer three contributions to the study of Brazilian public expenditures on health and education. First by constructing annual and bimonthly estimates of these expenditures in order to allow time series analyses of their historical evolution. Second by analysing the relative...

This text aims to offer three contributions to the study of Brazilian public expenditures on health and education. First by constructing annual and bimonthly estimates of these expenditures in order to allow time series analyses of their historical evolution. Second by analysing the relative...

Income contingent loans (ICLs) are a financial tool that optimizes the transactional efficiencies involved in the government monopoly in taxing personal income. It protects the borrowers against periods of low income, as instalments vary according to fluctuations in their incomes over the...

Income contingent loans (ICLs) are a financial tool that optimizes the transactional efficiencies involved in the government monopoly in taxing personal income. It protects the borrowers against periods of low income, as instalments vary according to fluctuations in their incomes over the...

This study sought to analyze the impact of the National School Food Program (Programa Nacional de Alimentação Escolar - PNAE), more precisely the insertion of family farming in the supply of food products to schools (Law No. 11,947/2009), on the grades of elementary school students, using data...

This study sought to analyze the impact of the National School Food Program (Programa Nacional de Alimentação Escolar - PNAE), more precisely the insertion of family farming in the supply of food products to schools (Law No. 11,947/2009), on the grades of elementary school students, using data...

This paper estimates the relative technical efficiency of Brazilian municipalities in the public education using the DEA model along with tobit regressions with the aid of re sampling methods. The jackstrap method enabled the estimation of robust efficiency scores, while the bootstrap allowed...

This text for discussion addresses the implications of the new tax regimes - Union and states - in the financing of public education. It adopts the disaffection of taxation as the northern implications, and concludes that the changes generated a less cooperative, more restrictive in terms of...

The contemporary debate on postsecondary student funding involves two key issues: a) fiscally responsible ways to allocate more resources to public institutions, as by increasing student participation on the costs of their studies in a manner that avoids additional barriers to access; b) design...

Since 1998, the public investment in the Brazilian fundamental education has been organized by the FUNDEF (Fund for Maintenance and Development of Fundamental Education and Valorization of Teaching). One of the goals of this fund is to assure resources for the public investment in fundamental...