O moderno marco inicial da Economia da Religião é o modelo apresentado por Azzi e Ehrenberg em 1975 para a freqüência religiosa. Este modelo possui na literatura diversos trabalhos empíricos visando testar as suas hipóteses. Neste artigo, testa-se as hipóteses do modelo de Azzi e...

INTRODUCTION: The Brazilian private health insurance sector has operated since 1940’s without regulation. In 1998, the Brazilian Government stating the regulation of this sector. The reform improved the health insurance coverage level, stating no limit to physician visits and proibition to...

We construct a dynamic general equilibrium model, calibrated to the Brazilian economy, in which a fraction of the firms set prices one quarter in advance. The artificial economy simulations generate series consistent with real data and with a typical estimation of a structural...

It remains unclear whether governments can improve health outcomes by solely increasing public spending on health care. In this paper, we provide first causal evidence on the impact of an increase in public spending on primary care on health care-seeking and mortality. We employ an event study...