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Essays on the Micro-Foundations of Welfare Attitudes and Polarization of Policy Preferences

This dissertation comprises three essays on the micro-foundations voters' support for welfare policies. In the first paper, I propose a hdpGLM to deal with context-dependent latent heterogeneity in the effect of observed covariates. The model is …

Fiscal Decentralization and Redistribution of Public Revenue: FPE in the Brazilian Constitutional Convention of 1988

This work explains the choices regarding the fiscal institutions approved during the Brazilian Constitutional Convention of 1988. The new Brazilian Constitution augmented the distribution of public resources across states through intergovernmental …