Fabiana Fontes Rocha

• 4th Brazilian Meeting on Economy of Family and Gender, AO.R

• Abstract

  The underrepresentation of women in Economics is remarkable across all levels of academia (bachelor, masters, doctorate, and faculties), private sector and government. Furthermore, women tend to advance less than men as economists on the career path. Thus, the unbalance in gender representation is more substantial at upper levels of the profession, including positions in academia. The fir…

  Underepresentation of women in economics: an analyses of the academic career in Brazil, AP.R
• 2014 Latin American Meeting of The Econometric Society, AO.R

• Training of researchers for production and management of website / blog - EconomistAs, BP.TT

• Abstract

  The Brazilian's tax system, as for the manner that it was built, makes room for a series of questions that evolve: financial efficiency, tax fairness, federalism, transparency and corrective taxation (Afonso, 2013). As so, a series of changes are proved to be necessary in a way to improve the taxes practices, a topic very frequently debated by Brazilian politicians, economist and tax lawy…

  A study about the effects of the PEC 45/19 in the inequality of income in Brazil with the help of the modern taxation theory, BP.IC

• Abstract

  Together with Fernanda Brollo and Juan Carlos Gozzi, from the University of Warwick, we analyze how political discretion affects the selection of government workers, using individual-level data on political party membership and matched employer-employee data on the universe of formal workers in Brazil. We use a regression discontinuity design on close elections to estimate the causal effe…

  Party membership and public sector employment in Brazil, BP.PD

(Only some records are available in English at this moment)

• Abstract

  At the start of the research project in the country "The Pattern of Brazilian Fiscal Policy and the Role of Fiscal Responsibility Law," was noted that it would be interesting to develop a model to represent the pattern of fiscal policy in developing countries . In the international literature there is a consensus that developing countries adopt pro-cyclical fiscal policies, while develope…

  The pattern of fiscal policy in developing economies: there is a trap of procyclical fiscal policy?, BE.EP.DR