F. Ferreira - Other Publications

Journal Articles

• Poverty Reduction without Economic Growth?: Explaining Brazil's poverty dynamics, 1985-2004, with Martin Ravallion and Phillippe G. Leite, Journal of Development Economics. Forthcoming.
• Aggregate Economic Shocks, Child Schooling and Child Health, with Norbert Schady, World Bank Research Observer, 24 (2): pp. 147-181, 2009.
• Beyond Oaxaca-Blinder: Accounting for Differences in Household Income Distributions, with F. Bourguignon and P. Leite, Journal of Economic Inequality, 6 (2), pp. 117-148, 2008.
• The Rise and Fall of Brazilian Inequality: 1981-2004, with P. Leite and J. Litchfield, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 12 (S2), pp. 199-230, 2008.
• Local Inequality and Project Choice: Theory and Evidence from Ecuador with M. Caridad Araujo, P. Lanjouw and B. Ozler, Journal of Public Economics, 92, pp.1022-1046, 2008.
• Inequality of Opportunity in Brazil, with F. Bourguignon and M. Menendez, Review of Income and Wealth, 53 (4), pp. 585-618, 2007.
• Inefficient Lobbying, Populism and Oligarchy, with F. Campante, Journal of Public Economics, 91, pp. 993-1021, 2007.
• Equity, Efficiency and Inequality Traps: A Research Agenda, with F. Bourguignon and M. Walton, Journal of Economic Inequality, 5, pp. 235-256, 2007.
• Conditional Cash Transfers, Schooling and Child Labor: Micro-simulating Brazil’s Bolsa Escola Programwith F. Bourguignon and P. Leite,  World Bank Economic Review, 17 (2), pp.229-254, 2003.
• Meeting the Millennium Development Goals in Brazil: can microeconomic simulations help?, with P. Leite, Economía, 3 (2), pp.235-279, 2003.
• A Robust Poverty Profile for Brazil Using Multiple Data Sources, with P. Lanjouw and M. Neri, Revista Brasileira de Economia, 57 (1), pp.59-92, 2003.
• “Qualidade e Eqüidade no Ensino Fundamental Brasileiro”, with Â. Albernaz and C. Franco, Pesquisa e Planejamento Econômico, 32 (3), pp.453-476, 2002.
• Missing the Target: Assessing Social Expenditures in Brazil, with J. Camargo, The Brown Journal of World Affairs, VIII (2), pp.97-111, 2002.
• Education for the Masses?: The Interaction between Wealth, Educational and Political Inequalities", Economics of Transition, 9 (2), pp.533-552, 2001.
  This is an electronic version of the article as published in the print edition of the Economics of Transition.
• Education Or Inflation? The Micro and Macroeconomics of the Brazilian Income Distribution during 1981-1995, with J. Litchfield, Cuadernos de Economia, 38 (114), pp.209-238, 2001.
• Rural Nonfarm Activities and Poverty in the Brazilian Northeast, with P. Lanjouw,  World Development, 29 (3), pp.509-528, 2001. 
• “La Educación y la Distribución del Ingreso en el Brasil Urbano, 1976-1996”, with R. Paes de Barros, CEPAL Review, 71, pp.43-64, 2000.
• Calm After the Storms: Income Distribution and Welfare in Chile, 1987-1994”, with J. Litchfield, World Bank Economic Review, 13, (3), pp. 509-538, 1999. 
• Economic Transition and the Distributions of Income and Wealth, Economics of Transition, 7 (2), pp.377-410, 1999. 
  This is an electronic version of the article published in the print edition of the Economics of Transition.
• “The Slippery Slope: Explaining the Increase in Extreme Poverty in Urban Brazil, 1976-1996”, with R. Paes de Barros, Brazilian Review of Econometrics, 19 (2) pp.211-296, November 1999. 
• "Income Distribution in Brazil, 1981-1990: Parametric and Non-Parametric Approaches", with F. Cowell and J. Litchfield, Journal of Income Distribution, 8 (1), pp. 63-76, 1998. 
• “Inequality and Redistribution During and After Transition”, Discussion Forum on Distribution and Growth During Transition, Economic Systems, 22 (1), pp.56-59, 1998.

Books

• Measuring Inequality of Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean, with R. Paes de Barros, J. Molinas and J. Saavedra, Washington, D.C.: Palgrave MacMillan and The World Bank, 2008.
• The Microeconomics of Income Distribution Dynamics in East Asia and Latin America, F. Ferreira, F. Bourguignon, N. Lustig (eds.), Washington, D.C.; The World Bank and Oxford University Press,  2005.
• Inequality in Latin America: Breaking with History? with D. de Ferranti, G. Perry and M. Walton, Washington, D.C.: The World Bank, 2004.
• Everyone’s Miracle?: Revisiting Poverty and Inequality in East Asia. with V. Ahuja, B. Bidani and M. Walton, Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 1997. 

Chapters in books

• "Inequality of Opportunity for Education: an application to Turkey", with Jérémie Gignoux, Chapter in Ravi Kanbur and Michael Spence (eds.) Equity and Growth. Forthcoming.
• "Trade Liberalization, Employment Flows and Wage Inequality in Brazil", with Phillippe G. Leite and Matthew Wai-Poi, Chapter 12 in M. Nissanke and E. Thorbecke (eds.) The Poor under Globalization in Africa, Asia and Latin America. (Oxford, OUP). Forthcoming.
• "Halving Brazil's Poverty: 1983-2006" , with Phillippe Leite, Chapter 29 in von Braun, Hill and Pandya-Lorch (eds.) The Poorest and the Hungry: Assessments, Analyses and Actions (Washington, DC: IFPRI). 2009.
• "Global Poverty and Inequality: A Review of the Evidence", with M. Ravallion, in Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality, Chapter 24 in Nolan, Salverda and Smeeding (eds.) 2009.
• Entry on "Global Income Inequality", with F. Bourguignon, B. Milanovic and M. Ravallion), in the Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy (Princeton University Press). 2009.
• “Can the distributional impacts of macroeconomic shocks be predicted? A comparison of the performance of macro-micro models with historical data for Brazil”, with P. Leite, L. Pereira da Silva and P. Picchetti, in The impact of economic policies on poverty and income distribution - Macro-Micro Evaluation Techniques and Tools, Chapter 5 in Bourguignon, Bussolo and Pereira da Silva (eds.), Washington, DC: Palgrave Macmillan and The World Bank. 2008.
• "Os efeitos do antigo programa Bolsa Escola sobre a pobreza, a desigualdade, a escolaridade e o trabalho infantile: uma abordagem de microsimulação", with F. Bourguignon and P. Leite, in Desigualdade de Renda no Brasil: una análise da queda recente (Volume 2), Chapter 22 in Barros, Foguel and Ulyssea (eds.), Rio de Janeiro, IPEA. 2007. (Reprint in Portuguese translation from WBER article, 2003).
• "Ascensão e queda da desigualdade de renda no Brasil: uma atualização para 2005", with P. Leite, J. Litchfield and G. Ulyssea, in Desigualdade de Renda no Brasil: uma análise da gueda recente (Volume 1), Chapter 11 in Barros, Foguel and Ulyssea (eds.), Rio de Janeiro, IPEA. 2007.
• "Inequality of Opportunity and Economic Development", with M. Walton, in Equity and Development, Kochendorfer-Lucius and Pleskovic (eds.), Washington, DC, InWent and The World Bank, 2006.
• “Introduction” with F. Bourguignon and N. Lustig, “Decomposing Changes in the Distribution of Household Incomes: Methodological Aspects” with F. Bourguignon, “The Slippery Slope: Explaining the Increase in Extreme Poverty in Urban Brazil, 1976-1996”  with R. Paes de Barros, “A Synthesis of the Results” with F. Bourguignon and Lustig, in The Microeconomics of Income Distribution Dynamics in East Asia and Latin America, Bourguignon, Ferreira, and Lustig (eds.), Washington, DC; The World Bank and Oxford University Press, 2005.
• “Educational Expansion and Income Distribution: A micro-simulation for Ceará”, with P. Leite, in Growth, Inequality and Poverty, van der Hoeven and Shorrocks (eds.), London, Oxford University Press, 2004.
  (This is a working paper version of this chapter).
• “Ex-ante Evaluation of Policy Reforms Using Behavioural Models”, with F. Bourguignon, in The Impact of Economic Policies on Poverty and Income Distribution, Bourguignon, F. and L. Pereira da Silva (eds.), New York, Oxford University Press, 2003.
• "Desigualdade, Pobreza e Bem-Estar Social no Brasil: 1981-95", with J. Litchfield, and "Os Determinantes da Desigualdade de Renda no Brasil: Luta de Classes ou Heterogeneidade Educacional", in Desigualdade e Pobreza no Brasil, Henriques (ed.), Rio de Janeiro, IPEA. 2000. 
•  “The World Bank and Structural Adjustment: Lessons from the 1980s”, with L. Keely, in The World Bank: Structure and Policies, Gilbert and Vines (eds.), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000. 
• “Educacion o Inflacion?: Explicando la Desigualdad en Brasil en la Decada de los Ochenta” with J. Litchfield, in Pobreza y Desigualdad en America Latina, Cardenas and Lustig (eds.), Bogota: Tercer Mundo Editores, 1999.
• “Desigualdad y Pobreza en la Decada Perdida”, with J. Litchfield,  in El Nuevo Modelo Economico en America Latina, Bulmer-Thomas (ed.), Mexico City: El Trimestre Economico, 1997. 
• "The World Bank as 'Intellectual Actor'", with N. Stern, in The World Bank: Its First Half Century, Vol. 2, Kapur, Lewis and Webb (eds.),  Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1997.
•  "Inequality and Poverty in the Lost Decade: Brazilian Income Distribution in the 1980s", with J. Litchfield, in The New Economic Model in Latin America and its Impact on Income Distribution and Poverty, V. Bulmer-Thomas (ed.), London: Macmillan. 1996.  
• "The World Bank and the Analysis of the International Debt Crisis", with B. Armendariz de Aghion, in The New Institutional Economics and Third World Development, Harriss, J., J. Hunter and C. Lewis (eds.), London: Routledge. 1995.

Other Papers

• "O Benefício Social Único: Uma Proposta de Reforma da Política Social no Brasil", with J. Camargo, Departamento de Economia, PUC-Rio, TD #443 (March 2001).
• "Protecting the Poor from Macroeconomic Shocks: An Agenda for Action in a Crisis and Beyond", with G. Prennushi and M. Ravallion, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2160. August 1999.
• "Roads to Equality: Wealth Distribution Dynamics with Public-Private Capital Complementarity", LSE STICERD Theoretical Economics DP No. 95/286 (April 1995).