Claudio Djissey Shikida

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• Article: Rational electoral cycles: evidence for the mineiros cities

  Ari Francisco de Araujo Junior, Weber Americano Júnior, Cláudio D. Shikida, Márcio Antônio Salvato
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  ABSTRACT: The aim of this paper is to test the hypothesis of rational electoral cycles in local elections of 2000 and 2004 in Minas Gerais. We use the theoretical model/empirical employed by Sakurai (2005) and originally proposed by Pettersson-Lidbom (2001). The results show that municipal expenditures are higher in election years and that there is evidence of electoral rational cycles in the 2000 elections, and in all elections of 2000 and 2004 for the voters of the left parties.
  Informe GEPEC. 01/2010;
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  Article: Military Expenditures, External Threats and Economic Growth

  Claudio Djissey Shikida, Ari Francisco de Araujo Junior, Cláudio D. Shikida
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  ABSTRACT: Do military expenditures have impact on growth? Aizenman & Glick (2006) found that this impact is positive in countries with good governance, where the external threat is significant. Our article shows that their results suffer from three limitations: (i) they are not robust to the most recent main database used (ii) small changes in the time period of some variables change their results, and (iii) the authors' econometric specification is not adequate to their hypothesis. Using a 2SLS specification we reconfirm the authors'' hypothesis.
  Economics Bulletin. 10/2008; 15(16):1-7.
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  Article: Growth and inequalities of height in Brazil (1939-1981)

  Leonardo M Monasterio, Luiz Paulo Noguerol, Claudio Djissey Shikida
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  ABSTRACT: This paper analyzes the heights of Brazilian people using anthropometric and economic data. The literature suggests that height is a good proxy of the material living conditions of different populations. Data indicate that the difference between the heights of 21 and 65-year-old men is approximately six centimetres. The same value, by coincidence, represents the difference in the stature of the poorest and richest quintiles. Adjusted data show an increase of 3.8 centimetres in the heights of adult male Brazilians born between 1939 and 1981. There are also stable regional differences; in the North and Northeast of the country, heights are about two centimetres lower than the national average for all groups. Regression analyses show that proxy variables related to living conditions during bodily growth, and using regional dummies, were statistically significant causes of the variation in the heights of individuals. In contrast, colour, urban/rural, and inequality variables were not significant. The results replicate what the historiography of the relation between living conditions and stature makes clear: the social environment has a significant impact on the average height of populations.
  07/2006;
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  Article: SEIS CENTÍMETROS: UMA ANALÍSE ANTROPOMÉTRICA DA POF 2002- 2003

  Luiz Paulo Nogueról, Cláudio D. Shikida, Leonardo M. Monasterio
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  ABSTRACT: This paper analyzes the heights of the Brazilian people using anthropometric and economic data from the Pesquisa de Orçamentos Familiares (POF) 2002-2003. The literature suggests that height is a good proxy of the physical life conditions of the populations. The tabulations of POF microdata indicate that the difference among the heights of 21 and 65-year-old men is circa 6 centimeters. The same value, by chance, represents the difference on the stature of the poorest and richest quintiles. There are also steady regional differences; in the North and Northeast, the heights are about 2 centimeters lower than the national average, for any cohort. Regression analyses show that proxy variables related to life conditions during body growth and regional dummies were statistically significant causes of the variation on the height of individuals. In contrast, color, urban/rural and inequality variables were not significant. The results replicate what the historiography on life conditions and stature says: the social environment has a significant impact on the average height of the populations.
  02/2005;
• Article: Give me Security or I give you a "no": looking for the median voter in the Brazilian Guns' Referendum

  Ari Francisco de Araujo Junior, Fábio Augusto Reis Gomes, Márcio Antônio Salvato, Cláudio Djissey Shikida
  Revista Brasileira de Economia 02/2008; 61(4):429-448.