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Working Paper Occupy government: democracy and the dynamics of personnel decisions and public sector performance(2019) Ferreira, Fernando V; Barbosa, KlenioWe study the causes and consequences of patronage in Brazilian cities since the country’s re democratization. Our data consist of the universe of local public sector employees merged with their party affiliations, and a dynamic regression discontinuity design is applied to deal with the endogeneity of patronage. Elections have consequences for patronage, with winning political coalitions increasing their shares of public sector workers and wages by 3-4 percentage points during a mayoral term, and also occupying civil servant jobs to perform key service-oriented tasks in education and public health. This type of patronage accounts for more than half of the dramatic increase in public sector political employment since the Brazilian re-democratization. The political occupation of government jobs is not associated with ideology, though. Instead, lack of accountability and rent-seeking are the primary driving forces, while reliance on intergovernmental transfers only increases patronage for smaller cities. Finally, we estimate the long-term consequences of this political occupation for fiscal outcomes conditions and for the quality of education and health care services. More political occupation does not affect the size of local governments, but it changes the composition of expenditures and public workers: the hiring of politically connected workers crowds out, practically one-to-one, non-affiliated teachers and doctors. The increased political occupation in Brazilian cities resulted in negative long term outcomes for local citizens in the form of less years of formal schooling and higher mortality rates.Working Paper Reducing crime through environmental design: evidence from a randomized experiment of street lighting in New York City(2019) Chalfin, Aaron; Hansen, Benjamin; Lerner, Jason; Parker, LucieThis paper offers experimental evidence that crime can be successfully reduced by changing the situational environment that potential victims and offenders face. We focus on a ubiquitous but surprisingly understudied feature of the urban landscape – street lighting – and report the first experimental evidence on the effect of street lighting on crime. Through a unique public partnership in New York City, temporary streetlights were randomly allocated to public housing developments from March through August 2016. We find evidence that communities that were assigned more lighting experienced sizable reductions in crime. After accounting for potential spatial spillovers, we find that the provision of street lights led, at a minimum, to a 36 percent reduction in nighttime outdoor index crimes.Working Paper Under pressure: women's leadership during the COVID-19 crisis(2021) Bruce, Raphael; Cavgias, Alexsandros; Meloni, Luis; Remígio, MárioIn this paper, we study the effect of women's public leadership in times of crisis. More specifically, we use a regression discontinuity design in close mayoral races between male and female candidates to understand the impact of having a woman as a mayor during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil. We provide evidence that municipalities under female leadership had fewer deaths and hospitalizations per 100 thousand inhabitants and enforced more non-pharmaceutical interventions (e.g., mask usage and prohibition of gatherings). We also show that these results are not due to measures taken before the pandemic or other observable mayoral characteristics such as education or political preferences. Finally, we provide evidence that these effects are stronger in municipalities where Brazil's far-right president, who publicly disavowed the importance of non-pharmaceutical interventions, had a higher vote share in the 2018 election. Overall, our findings provide credible causal evidence that female leaders outperformed male ones when dealing with a global policy issue. Moreover, our results also showcase the role local leaders can play in counteracting bad policies implemented by populist leaders at the national level.Working Paper Contando o atraso educacional: despesas e matrículas na educação primária de São Paulo, 1880-1920(2016) Colistete, Renato P.Este artigo analisa o desempenho educacional de São Paulo em meio às transformações econômicas e sociais do Brasil no final do século XIX e início do século XX. Ainda abaixo da média nacional em 1870, São Paulo alcançou nas décadas seguintes uma das maiores taxas de matrícula e tornou-se um dos líderes da educação primária no Brasil em 1920. O artigo apresenta novas séries de despesas e matrículas que, combinadas com indicadores que medem o esforço fiscal realizado, trazem à luz fatos pouco reconhecidos sobre as escolas primárias de São Paulo entre 1880 e 1920. Primeiro, o acesso ao ensino primário – em São Paulo e no Brasil – continuou extremamente restrito, pouco se diferenciando da situação de atraso em relação aos indicadores internacionais em meados do século XIX. Segundo, o excepcional crescimento das riquezas privadas e das receitas fiscais em São Paulo não foi acompanhado pelos gastos com educação primária. A discrepância entre o ritmo de crescimento das receitas públicas e das despesas com instrução primária levou a um resultado surpreendente: nas primeiras décadas da República em São Paulo, o esforço fiscal destinado à educação primária caiu para a metade do realizado durante os últimos 10 anos do Império.Working Paper Analyzing determinants of foreign credit demand for sovereign bonds*(2021) Silva, Victor Hugo C. Alexandrino da; Drzeviechi, Maria Clara; Garcia, Gabriella; Netto, Augusto A. S.This paper aims to investigate the economic determinants of foreign credit demand for sovereign bonds in selected emerging and advanced countries. Furthermore, it is an objective to understand what causes a greater impact on this demand: the country’s domestic macroeconomic fundamentals or the external global environment. To this end, using data on share of foreign demand for sovereign bonds, an econometric analysis will be conducted with panel data from 2004 to 2019 for 45 emerging and advanced markets. The main findings show that both domestic fundamentals and the external environment affect the foreign participation in sovereign debt, but results vary depending on the degree of development and the channel through each variable affect our dependent variable. We find that domestic fundamentals seem to be related with the increase in foreign participation for both group of economies, but with different magnitudes and interpretation. For some variables, it is more related to the foreign demand of sovereign bonds and, for others, associated with the bond supply. The degree of development also seems to be important to the external environment. For some variables (US nominal interest rate), the ’search for yield’ plays a major role for the bond demand. But, for others (as the FX volatility and the VIX Index), the global demand is related with foreign investors’ risk aversion. Finally, we found that, in times of global turmoil, domestic fundamentals matter less for foreign attractiveness than in times when the global volatility is low.Working Paper Public investment and fiscal crisis in Brazil: finding culprits and solutions(2021) MARCO ANTONIO CESAR BONOMO; Frischtak, Cláudio R.; PAULO SERGIO OLIVEIRA RIBEIROWe investigate the relation between existing fiscal rules and investments in the context of a fiscal crisis in Brazil. We analyze existing fiscal rules at national and subnational levels, their enforcement, and proposed alternatives. Using narrative analysis, case studies, interviews, empirical estimation, and model simulations, we conclude that public investment is not closely related to fiscal rules in Brazil but is mainly determined by fiscal conditions both at national and subnational (state) levels. It is the steady increase of personnel expenditures in real terms that underlies the fiscal deterioration of the last decade, despite the existence of fiscal rules devised to prevent it. We argue that a constitutional rule limiting subnationals’ personnel expenditures to 50 percent of net revenues, triggering adjustment measures when reaching 47.5 percent, would be an effective instrument for subnational fiscal management, opening fiscal space for increasing investments. At the national level, despite the existence of several fiscal rules, the only effective fiscal anchor is the primary expenditure ceiling introduced in 2016, which has successfully curbed expenditures, including those of the judiciary and legislature.Working Paper Reconciling financial and social performance through heterogeneous business models: an empirical study of impact-oriented investors(2017) SERGIO GIOVANETTI LAZZARINI; SANDRO CABRAL; Pongeluppe, Leandro Simões; Ferreira, Luciana Carvalho de Mesquita; Rotondaro, AngélicaWorking Paper A macro-financial analysis of the corporate bond market(2018) Dewachter, Hans; Iania, Leonardo; Lemke, Wolfgang; Lyrio, Marco Túlio PereiraWe assess the contribution of economic and Önancial factors in the determination of euro area corporate bond spreads over the period 2001-2015. The proposed multi-market, no arbitrage a¢ ne term structure model is based on the methodology proposed by Dewachter, Iania, Lyrio, and Perea (2015). We model jointly the ërisk-free curveí, measured by overnight index swap (OIS) rates, and the corporate yield curves for two rating classes (A and BBB). The model includes four spanned and six unspanned factors. We Önd that, in general, both economic (real activity and ináation) and Önancial factors (proxying risk aversion, áight to liquidity and general Önancial market stress) play a signiÖcant role in the determination of the spanned factors and hence in the dynamics of the risk-free yield curve and corporate bond spreads. Across the risk-free OIS curve, macroeconomic and Önancial factors are each responsible on average for explaining 30 and 65 percent of yield varation, respectively. For A and BBB-rated corporate debt, the selected Önancial variables explain on average 50 percent of the variation in corporate spreads during the last decade.Working Paper Desigualdade Racial e de Gênero nas Eleições Municipais no Brasil(2022) SERGIO PINHEIRO FIRPO; França, Michael; Portella, Alysson; Tavares, RafaelEste trabalho contribui com a literatura que procura estimar os desequilíbrios raciais e de gênero na representação política municipal brasileira. Para isso, utilizamos dados das eleições de prefeitos e vereadores de 2016 e 2020 com o intuito de investigar em que medida mulheres negras, homens negros e mulheres brancas estão sub-representados em relação aos homens brancos em nosso sistema político local. Nossa análise revela altos níveis de desequilíbrios, em especial na dimensão de gênero. Para prefeitos, os desequilíbrios são altos quando consideramos tanto as candidaturas quanto os que foram eleitos. No caso dos vereadores, o desequilíbrio é maior entre os eleitos. Adicionalmente, verificamos que havia uma alta desigualdade no financiamento de campanhas em favor de homens brancos em 2016, que se reverte em favor das mulheres em 2020. Contudo, essa mudança não foi capaz de alterar os baixos níveis de representação feminina na política local.Working Paper Desigualdade Racial nas Eleições Brasileiras(2022) SERGIO PINHEIRO FIRPO; França, Michael; Portella, Alysson; Tavares, Rafael