Showing posts with label Prata da Casa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Prata da Casa. Show all posts
Friday, November 29, 2019

Awarded research on historical inequality in Brazil

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I am very proud to share that my friend and colleague at Ipea Pedro Souza has been awarded the Prêmio Jabuti for his book 'A His...
Tuesday, June 5, 2018

PolicySpace: agent-based modeling for public policy analysis

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I've posted before about the " Humans of Simulated New York ", a comprehensive agent-based model (ABM) of city life that is b...
Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Humans of Simulated New York: comprehensive ABM model of city life

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Here is a very interesting project that aims towards building agent based models to simulate cities and the impacts of policies on them. T...
Friday, September 30, 2016

Empty spaces in the crowd: Residential vacancy in São Paulo

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Nadalin , V., & Igliori , D. (2016). Empty spaces in the crowd. Residential vacancy in São Paulo’s city centre . Urban Studies , DOI: 1...
Saturday, November 22, 2014

Incorporating Cognitively Perceived Urban Space in Economic Models

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Furtado, B. A. (2011). Neighbourhoods in urban economics: incorporating cognitively perceived urban space in economic models . Urban Studi...
Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Spatial income inequality in Brazil, 1872–2000

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Reis, E. (2014). Spatial income inequality in Brazil, 1872–2000 .  Economia , 15 (2), 119-140.  *Thanks Leo Monasterio for the tip. A...
Sunday, August 10, 2014

What do we know about the Top Incomes?

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Marcelo Medeiros  and  Pedro Souza  (two excellent researches) give an answer to this question in a recent study: "The Rich, th...
Monday, November 25, 2013

The determinants of agglomeration in Brazil: input-output, labor and knowledge externalities

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Aguinaldo Maciente is a great colleague of mine at Ipea. He finished his PhD at Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) a few months ago. It could be ...
Tuesday, September 17, 2013

The Causes of Informal Housing - EPAINOS 2013 Prize Winner

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Every year, the European Regional Science Association (ERSA) gives the EPAINOS award to a young scientist, under 33 years old. It makes me...
Thursday, July 4, 2013

Pricing and Funding Public Transport in Brazil

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 Self-promotion alert  Some colleagues and I have just published a report on ' Pricing and Funding Public Transport in Brazil ...
Thursday, February 28, 2013

Wage differentials between public and private sector workers and income inequality in Brazil

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Two of my  brightest colleagues,  Pedro Souza and Marcelo Medeiros , have recently published a study on ' The contribution of wage di...
Thursday, November 22, 2012

Land use dynamics in the Brazilian Amazon

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With the increasing importance of environmental issues on the international agenda, the Brazilian Amazon is receiving increasing attent...
Wednesday, November 7, 2012

A cellular automata intraurban model with prices and income-differentiated actors

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Bernardo A. Furtado (a friend of mine from Ipea) have recently published this paper that I'd like to share with you: A cellular auto...
Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Immigration and regional inequality in Brazil

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A new paper by Irineu and  Leo Monasterio . Congrats! Immigration and the origins of regional inequality: Government-sponsored European ...
Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Land Regulation in Brazilian Cities

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It is somewhat difficult to find academic studies about Brazilian cities published in English. So here are some interesting papers I would...
Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Prata da Casa: Climate change in Brazil

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new book! Jorge Hargrave and other colleagues at  Ipea  launched the book  Climate Change in Brazil: economic, social and regulatory ...
Sunday, November 27, 2011

NeW! 'Prata da Casa' session: regional and urban economics handbook

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I'm starting a new post session called "Prata da Casa" to recommend some good research and publications by my colleagues here ...