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This Working Paper decomposes changes in the Gini coefficient in order to investigate whether Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) have had an inequality reducing effect in three Latin American countries: Brazil, Mexico and Chile. Its technique is the decomposition of the Gini coefficient by factor...
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This paper evaluates the contribution of cash transfer programmes to the observed fall in inequality in Brazil between 1995 and 2004 as well as its impact on poverty. We use the 2004 Brazilian National Household Survey (PNAD) that for the first time collected data on the incidence of some of the...
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The objective of this paper is to explore the interplay between schooling and demographics in Brazil. We would like to provide a preliminary answer to the question of how long will improvements in schooling of younger cohorts take o change the distribution of educational endowments of the total...
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The objective of this paper is to explore the interplay between schooling and demographics in Brazil. We would like to provide a preliminary answer to the question of how long will improvements in schooling of younger cohorts take o change the distribution of educational endowments of the total...
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Neste texto, examinamos o atual arranjo de benefícios monetários para crianças com 15 anos ou menos, que é composto no Brasil pelo benefício variável do Programa Bolsa Família, pelo salário-família e pela dedução para dependente menor de 16 anos no pagamento do Imposto de Renda Pessoa...
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Este texto analisa a evolução das habilidades cognitivas dos jovens brasileiros medidas pelo Programa Internacional de Avaliação de Alunos (Pisa, na sigla em inglês). Nossos resultados são bastante positivos. Apesar de um aumento considerável na porcentagem dos jovens aptos a fazer o Pisa...
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Este texto utiliza duas abordagens para responder se o ritmo de queda da desigualdade no Brasil está adequado ou não. A primeira é comparar o ritmo de queda no coeficiente de Gini no Brasil com a queda no mesmo indicador em alguns países hoje pertencentes à Organização para a Cooperação...
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