Should educational policies be regressive?

In this paper, we show that when the government is able to transfer wealth between generations, regressive policies are no longer optimal. The optimal educational policy can be decentralized through appropriate Pigouvian taxes and credit provision, is not regressive, and provides equality of opportunities in education (in the sense of irrelevance of parental income for the amount of education). Moreover, in the presence of default, the optimal policy can be implemented through income-contingent payments.

A internacionalização da publicidade brasileira - 1970/2002

O processo de globalização da economia tem moldado um cenário complexo e desafiante para o setor publicitário brasileiro. A fusão e incorporação entre agências, com a absorção de muitas por grandes grupos de comunicação, é uma das mais visíveis transformações estruturais desde a década de 1980. O presente estudo investigou as seguintes questões: o impacto da internacionalização da publicidade brasileira nas relações entre as agências, anunciantes e veículos de comunicação; como as agências brasileiras têm ajustado seu modo de operação e competição, visando vantagem competitiva e lucratividade; as alternativas de continuidade das agências brasileiras diante da transmissão do poder aos sucessores legais e das propostas de fusão ou incorporação de grupos estrangeiros. Este estudo se insere na linha de pesquisa "Estudos da Cultura e do Consumo", desenvolvida pelo CECC - Centro de Estudos da Cultura e do Consumo, da EAESP/FGV.

Three essays on education from the perspective of the economics of public setor

This work consists of three essays organized into chapters that seek to answer questions at first sight unrelated, but with one common denominator, which is the scarcity of public resources devoted to education, overall, especially in lower education. . The first chapter deals with the scarcity of resources devoted to education in a context of population aging. Two hypotheses were tested for Brazilian municipalities on the relationship between the aging of the population and educational expenditure. The first, already proven in the literature, is that there is an intergenerational conflict for resources and the increase of the share of elderly in the population reduces the educational expenditure. The second, proposed here for the first time, is that there should be reduction of competition for resources if there is a relationship of co-residence between young and old. The results indicated that an increase in the share of elderly reduces the educational expenditure per youth. But the results also illustrate that an increase in the share of elderly co-residing with youth (family arrangement more common in Latin American countries) raises the educational expenditure, which reflects a reduction of competition for resources between generations. The second chapter assesses the allocative efficiency of investments in Higher Education. Using the difference between first-year and last-year students’ scores from Enade aggregated by HEI as a product in the Stochastic Production Function, is possible to contribute with a new element in the literature aimed at estimating the production function of education. The results show that characteristics of institutions are the variables that best explain the performance of students, and that public institutions are more inefficient than the private ones. Finally, the third chapter presents evidence that the allocation of public resources in early childhood education is important for a better future school performance. In this chapter was calculated the effects of early childhood education on literacy scores of children attending the 2nd grade of elementary school. The results using OLS and propensity score matching show that students who started school at the ages to 5, 4, and 3 years had literacy scores between 12.22 and 19.54 points higher than the scores of those who began school at the ages 6 years or late. The results also suggest that the returns in terms of literacy scores diminish in relation to the number of years of early childhood education.

Public debt and the limits of fiscal policy to increase economic growth

Research that seeks to estimate the effects of fiscal policies on economic growth has ignored the role of public debt in this relationship. This study proposes a theoretical model of endogenous growth, which demonstrates that the level of the public debt-to-gross domestic product (GDP) ratio should negatively impact the effect of fiscal policy on growth. This occurs because government indebtedness extracts part of the savings of the young to pay interest on the debts of the older generation, who are no longer saving. Therefore, the payment of debt interest assumes an allocation exchange role between generations that is similar to a pay-as-you-go pension system, which results in changes in the savings rate of the economy. The major conclusions of the theoretical model were tested using an econometric model to provide evidence for the validity of this conclusion. Our empirical analysis controls for timeinvariant, country-specific heterogeneity in the growth rates. We also address endogeneity issues and allow for heterogeneity across countries in the model parameters and for cross-sectional dependence.

Perfil motivacional da geração Y comparado ao de outros grupos etários: investigação em uma instituição financeira nacional

A presente dissertação investiga o perfil motivacional de empregados de uma grande instituição financeira brasileira, inseridos no corte demográfico designado de “Geração Y” (Y’s). Tal perfil foi comparado ao de empregados pertencentes a outros grupos etários da mesma instituição. Para dar suporte à pesquisa, o referencial teórico analisa os cortes geracionais – com enfoque na Geração Y – e diferentes visões sobre o tema da motivação, bem como debate a importância do conhecimento do perfil motivacional desses empregados, para uma adequada formulação de estratégias de motivação laboral. Secundariamente, para essa análise a pesquisa busca auxílio na teoria do contrato psicológico de trabalho. Na coleta de dados da pesquisa foi utilizada a Escala de Valores de Schwartz (Schwartz Value Survey), em sua versão PVQ – Portrait Value Questionnaire, com o objetivo de prescrutar os tipos motivacionais mais relevantes dos Y’s e seus cohorts, permitindo-se, com isso, traçar um perfil motivacional de cada grupo demográfico. Com base na amostra coletada, o estudo conclui que não há evidência sobre a existência de diferenças no perfil motivacional, sob o ponto de vista estatístico, entre os cortes geracionais dentro da organização pesquisada.