This doctoral dissertation consists of 3 articles that address topics not related to each other, but directly linked to three major areas of economic research: economic growth, political economy, and labor economics. The first article tries to reconcile the theoretical predictions of economic growth literature on the relationship between human capital increase and GDP per capita with the empirical evidence of the last 40 years. The overlapping generations model suggests the existence of a trade-off between quantity and quality of education that arises through the occupational choice of individuals. Thus, the positive impact of an increase in a country\'s average years of schooling on its human capital stock would be compensated by a decreas...
FACEPEThis thesis consists of papers that analyzes different aspects of the labor Market in Brazil, ...
The article examines the process through which education from the 1970s onwards became a key variabl...
The political business cycle theory suggests that economic fluctuations can be explained by the elec...
This doctoral dissertation consists of 3 articles that address topics not related to each other, but...
This thesis contains three chapters. The first chapter studies the emergence of slums as a common fe...
This dissertation explores in three essays and one short note different issues related to the Brazil...
The Thesis entitled “Three Essays on Economic Growth in Latin America and Brazil” is composed of thr...
This thesis is composed of three essays in applied microeconomics. In all essays, we investigate dif...
Thesis advisor: Arthur LewbelIn my dissertation I studied the political economy of economic developm...
This dissertation studies the labor market effect of different educational policies in Latin America...
This thesis is a collection of three independent essays in empirical political economics. The first...
Brazil has been facing serious employment and income distribution problems and its economy has grown...
This dissertation studies the impacts of quid pro quo relationships between politiciansand their sup...
O objetivo deste artigo é desenvolver e testar empiricamente um modelo de crescimento econômico que ...
In this dissertation I discuss how the allocation of human capital, in the form of education, across...
FACEPEThis thesis consists of papers that analyzes different aspects of the labor Market in Brazil, ...
The article examines the process through which education from the 1970s onwards became a key variabl...
The political business cycle theory suggests that economic fluctuations can be explained by the elec...
This doctoral dissertation consists of 3 articles that address topics not related to each other, but...
This thesis contains three chapters. The first chapter studies the emergence of slums as a common fe...
This dissertation explores in three essays and one short note different issues related to the Brazil...
The Thesis entitled “Three Essays on Economic Growth in Latin America and Brazil” is composed of thr...
This thesis is composed of three essays in applied microeconomics. In all essays, we investigate dif...
Thesis advisor: Arthur LewbelIn my dissertation I studied the political economy of economic developm...
This dissertation studies the labor market effect of different educational policies in Latin America...
This thesis is a collection of three independent essays in empirical political economics. The first...
Brazil has been facing serious employment and income distribution problems and its economy has grown...
This dissertation studies the impacts of quid pro quo relationships between politiciansand their sup...
O objetivo deste artigo é desenvolver e testar empiricamente um modelo de crescimento econômico que ...
In this dissertation I discuss how the allocation of human capital, in the form of education, across...
FACEPEThis thesis consists of papers that analyzes different aspects of the labor Market in Brazil, ...
The article examines the process through which education from the 1970s onwards became a key variabl...
The political business cycle theory suggests that economic fluctuations can be explained by the elec...