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Working Papers
- 'Family background and students' achievement on a university entrance exam in Brazil',(with Breno Sampaio), Education Economics (2011)
- 'Barriers to Skill Aquisition in Brazil: Evidences for a University entrance exam', (with Tiago V. de V. Cavalcanti and Breno Sampaio) The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance (2010) , vol. 50, p. 395–407
- 'What is behind University Dropout Decision in Brazil? A Bivariate Probability Model', (with Breno Sampaio and Yony Sampaio), The Empirical Economics Letters, (June 2010), vol. 9, no 6. ISSN 1681 8997
- 'Diferença de Eficiência entre ensino Público e Privado no Brasil', (with Breno Sampaio), Revista de Economia Aplicada Mar 2009, vol.13, no.1, p.45-68. ISSN 1413-8050
- 'Is Brazil the land of happiness? A comparative study using a sample with econ university studentsfrom UFPE and Purdue'. (with Tiago Cavalcanti and José Ricardo Nogueira), Brazilian Review of Econometrics, vol.29 (1), 2009.
- 'Mind the Gap: Evidences from Gender Differences in Scores in Brazil',(December 2008) Juliana Guimaraes and Breno Sampaio
- 'Has long become longer or short become shorter? Evidence from a censored quantile regression analysis of the changes in the distribution of U.S. unemployment duration', (October 2004) Juliana Guimaraes, Jos´e A.F. Machado and Pedro Portugal