Leonardo Monasterio's Blog

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Following the  suggestions of Tyler Cowen , I went to Singapore. It's just like people say: clean, rich, multicultural, efficient and w...

Pereira, R. H. M., Nadalin, V., Monasterio, L. and Albuquerque, P. H. M. (2012), Urban Centrality: A Simple Index. Geographical Analysis. d...

... for some strange reason they go well together. Brasilia in the 1960s. A great slide show of Niemeyer and his works . (FYI , I do en...

The "engrish" version of my blog in Portuguese has been pretty slow. I do apologize to my 3,474,685 English speaking readers for ...

I am teaching a course at UCB on the use of microeconometric tools (RCT, IV, Dif-in-Difs , PSM...) on regional policy evaluation. The textb...

I spot this at the University of Brasília (Nov, 2011) and took a picture. The work is not signed: It says: take good care of your "...

The Baining—one of the indigenous cultural groups of Papua New Guinea—have the reputation, at least among some researchers, of being the d...

A new Transparency Bill has put personal monthly salaries of all Executive civil servants available on-line . It is also possible to downl...

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated . I am back and I will do my best to keep a regular flow of posts.

Here in Madrid people ask me frequently about my personal views on the future of Brazil. I do not have anything particularly interesting o...

Angélica Grill, a all-you-can-eat barbecue buffet ( rodízio ) in São Paulo, offers a 5 0% discount for people that went through bariatric s...

. Here . Despite the evidence, this is not a travel blog

There is little overlap between my " Brasilia for Tourists " post and the NYT recommendations . My comments are in blue . F...

I am so sorry. Back in February I wrote about the sharp fall of the homicide rate in the state of Rio de Janeiro . Daniel Cerqueira, an IP...

It seems that the 80's crisis hit the biological living standards of Brazilians. Shikida , Nogueról  and I are writing an updated vers...