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Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa (Insper) (Institutional affiliation for the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Graduated in Economics from the Universidade de São Paulo (1986), Master's in Economics from the Universidade de São Paulo (1992) and Ph.D. in Economics from the University College London (1997). IFB Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Public Policy at Insper Institute of Education and Associate Professor at the University of Sao Paulo. Main areas of research are education, labor market, inequality, unemployment, technology and productivity. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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This proposal aims to launch the Brazilian Center for Early Child Development (BCECD) that will: i) carry out original research in the area of measurement of early child development (ECD); ii), develop an application (app) to integrate and store data on child development from different sources; iii), disseminate the app among public sector workers and iv) organize e-learning courses and w…
Crime is one of the mains problems of the Brazilian cities, which significantly impacts the population welfare. The main aim of this project if to carry out a victimization survey in the city of Sao Paulo. The survey will allow us to develop detailed information about the victims and consequences of crime in the city of São Paulo, to estimate the number and types of crimes not reported t…
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The project is focused on the design and implementation of a cohort study in a partner municipality. The study will collect children's data from their birth onwards and will monitor infants' development of the sample throughout the years. Based on the data collected and results from the different analyses, we expect to identify risk factors for early childhood development, contributing wi…
The aim of this project is to identify the effects of imports of Chinese products and Brazilian exports to China on the birthweight of Brazilian children. Previous studies have shown that international trade with China affects the labor market significantly in several countries, including Brazil. Imports have negative effects on wages and exports, mainly of commodities, have a positive ef…
This study aims to analyze the influence of economic factors on the children and adolescents of food intake, its relationship with the incidence of overweight and obesity and its evolution in the first decade of the 2000s. For this, we estimated models that seek to identify the relationship between the nutritional status of individuals and individual food consumption as well as the sensit…
Over the past 15 years, Brazil has consistently introduced reforms to its educational system. Enrollments increased progressively in primary and secondary levels. Nevertheless, secondary education dropout rates are still extremely high and school performance students' is lower compared to many other countries. The Instituto Unibanco designed a program called "Jovem de Futuro", in an effo…
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