On the determinants of mortality reductions in the developing world.
Population and Development Review, v. 33, TD n. 2, 2007
p. 247-287,
Rodrigo Reis Soares.
Artigos em periódicos
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Fertility in post demographic transition countries
Pharmaceuticals Policy and Law, v. 9, 2007
p. 15-27,
Rodrigo Reis Soares.
Efficient semi parametric estimation of quantile treatment effects
Econometrica, v. 75, 2007
p. 259-277,
Sergio Firpo.
General equilibrium in CLO markets
Journal of Mathematical Economics, v. 43, 2007
Juan Pablo Torres-Martínez.
General equilibrium in CLO markets
Journal of Mathematical Economics, v. 43, 2007
Juan Pablo Torres-Martínez, Mariano Steinert.
O impacto dos fatores familiares sobre a defasagem idade-série de crianças no Brasil
Revista Brasileira de Economia, v. 61, TD n. 4, 2007
p. 449-476,
Analisamos o efeito da renda e da educação dos pais sobre a probabilidade
de as crianças terem defasagem idade-série usando a PNAD 1996. Com
a adoção de hipóteses sobre os vínculos existentes entre gerações, controlamos
para a existência de fatores não observados que afetam a formação
da renda dos pais e as decisões referentes à escolaridade das crianças (viés
de simultaneidade) ou que são passados de uma geração à outra (viés de
hereditariedade). Usamos três instrumentos: oferta educacional dos pais;
fatores familiares entre as gerações de pais e avós; e a mudança educacional
de 1971.
Gustavo Gonzaga, Danielle Carusi Machado.
Health and the evolution of welfare across Brazilian municipalities
Journal of Development Economics , v. 84, 2007
p. 590-608,
Rodrigo Reis Soares.
The effect of longevity on schooling and fertility: evidence from the Brazilian demographic and health survey
Journal of Population Economics, v. 19, 2006
p. 71-97,
Rodrigo Reis Soares.
Fixed points as Nash equilibria
Fixed Point Theory and Application, 2006
Juan Pablo Torres-Martínez.
The welfare cost of violence across countries.
Journal of Health Economics, v. 25, TD n. 5, 2006
Rodrigo Reis Soares.
Building neural networks
Journal of Forecasting, v. 25, TD n. 1, 2006
Timo Terasvirta, G. Rech, Marcelo Medeiros.
Trade liberalization and the evolution of skill earnings differentials in Brazil
Journal of International Economics, v. 68, 2006
p. 345-367,
Naercio Menezes, Gustavo Gonzaga, Cristina Terra.
Brazil as a debtor, 1824-1931
Economic History Review, v. 59, TD n. 4, 2006
p. 765-787,
Marcelo de Paiva Abreu.
Mortality Reductions, Educational Attainment, and Fertility Choice
American Economic Review, v. 95, TD n. 3, 2005
p. 58-601,
This paper develops a model where reductions in mortality are the main force behind economic development. The model generates a pattern of changes similar to the demographic transition, where gains in life expectancy at birth are followed by reductions infertility and increases in the rate of human capital accumulation. The onset of the transition is characterized by a critical level of life expectancy at birth, which marks the movement of the economy from a Malthusian equilibrium to an equilibrium with investments in human capital and the possibility of long-run growth.
Rodrigo Reis Soares.
The Quantity and Quality of Life and the Evolution of World Inequality
American Economic Review, v. 95, TD n. 1, 2005
p. 277-291,
GDP per capita is usually used to proxy for the quality of life of individuals living in different countries. Welfare is also affected by quantity of life, however, as represented by longevity. This paper incorporates longevity into an overall assessment of the evolution of cross-country inequality and shows that it is quantitatively important. The absence of reduction in cross-country inequality up to the 1990s documented in previous work is in stark contrast to the reduction in inequality after incorporating gains in longevity. Throughout the post-World War II period, health contributed to reduce significantly welfare inequality across countries. This paper derives valuation formulas for infra-marginal changes in longevity and computes a "full" growth rate that incorporates the gains in health experienced by 96 countries for the period between 1960 and 2000. Incorporating longevity gains changes traditional results; countries starting with lower income tended to grow faster than countries starting with higher income. We estimate an average yearly growth in "full income" of 4.1 percent for the poorest 50 percent of countries in 1960, of which 1.7 percentage points are due to health, as opposed to a growth of 2.6 percent for the richest 50 percent of countries, of which only 0.4 percentage points are due to health. Additionally, we decompose changes in life expectancy into changes attributable to 13 broad groups of causes of death and three age groups. We show that mortality from infectious, respiratory, and digestive diseases, congenital, perinatal, and "ill-defined" conditions, mostly concentrated before age 20 and between ages 20 and 50, is responsible for most of the reduction in life expectancy inequality. At the same time, the recent effect of AIDS, together with reductions in mortality after age 50-due to nervous system, senses organs, heart and circulatory diseases-contributed to increase health inequality across countries.
Gary S. Becker , Tomas J. Philipson, Rodrigo Reis Soares.
Accountability and Corruption: Political Institutions Matter
Economics and Politics, v. 17, TD n. 1, 2005
p. 1-35,
This study uses a cross-country panel to examine the determinants of corruption, paying particular attention to political institutions that increase accountability. Even though the theoretical literature has stressed the importance of political institutions in determining corruption, the empirical literature is relatively scarce. Our results confirm the role of political institutions in determining the prevalence of corruption. Democracies, parliamentary systems, political stability, and freedom of press are all associated with lower corruption. Additionally, common results of the previous empirical literature, related to openness and legal tradition, do not hold once political variables are taken into account.
Daniel Lederman , Norman V. Loayza, Rodrigo Reis Soares.
"Bureaucracy as a mechanism to generate information."
Rand Journal of Economics, v. 35, TD n. 2, 2004
p. 245-259,
Luigi Zingales, Walter Novaes.
Development, Crime, and Punishment: Accounting for the International Differences in Crime Rates
Journal of Development Economics, v. 73, TD n. 1, 2004
p. 155-185,
This paper analyzes the determinants of the heterogeneity in crime rates across countries,
focusing on reporting rates and development. The behavior of the reporting rate is studied by
comparing data from victimization surveys to official records. Reporting rates are strongly
correlated with development: richer countries report a higher fraction of crimes. The positive
relation between development and crime found in previous studies is shown to result from this
correlation. Once the presence of the reporting error is accounted for, development does not affect
crime. Reductions in inequality and increases in growth and education are associated with
reductions in crime rates.
Rodrigo Reis Soares.
Capital structure choice when managers are in control: Entrenchment versus efficiency.
Journal of Business, v. 76, 2003
p. 49-81,
Walter Novaes.
Labor Turnover and Labor Legislation in Brazil
Economía: Journal of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association, v. 4, TD n. 1, 2003
p. 165-222,
Gustavo Gonzaga.