Este trabalho busca gerar robustez aos resultados vistos em estudos que indicam uma maior capacidade da rede particular de ensino em gerar qualidade educacional no Brasil. Para isso, uma metodologia quantílica, baseada na seleção em observadas, é realizada, que ao contrário de outras...

In a companion paper, Bertolai et al. (2011) build on Peck-Shell (2003) economies and obtain strong implementation in perturbations of optimal contracts. Since bank runs are eliminated with distortions that become very small when the population grows, a pressing issue is whether an alternative...

This article explores theoretic and empirically the effects of inequality on the cost of electoral campaigns. An electoral competition model suggests that electoral campaigns costs increase with the level of inequality. That result stresses the need of careful campaign financing regulation in...