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Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV). Escola de Economia de São Paulo (EESP) (Institutional affiliation for the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
bachelor's at Economia from Universidade de São Paulo (1998), master's at Economy from Universidade de São Paulo (2002) and doctorate at Economia from Princeton University (2006). He has experience in Economics, focusing on Economics of Education and Labor Economics (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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In the r4d project financed Swiss National Foundation, we find evidence of the importance of exporting for firms' productivity, employment and wages. For example, Olarreaga and Ugarte (2020) find that augmenting the share of export promotion agencies' budgets on total exports lead to lower unemployment. The effects are stronger when efforts are focused on sectors in which countries have a…
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I propose to evaluate the impact of an incentive scheme in Brazil that offers monetary rewards for the mayor whose students attending schools of the municipal school system attain the best average performance in a national exam of schools (Prova Brasil). The incentive scheme is a rank-order tournament scheme where those who can compete for the prize are mayors holding office in municipali…
One type of program that has been increasingly used for the purpose of increase school performance are programs that provide financial incentives to students. Overall, the literature documents that the impact that incentives have on student performance relies heavily on how they are designed, the public targeted, that is, the age range and socioeconomic characteristics of the students, an…
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