Street protests against Dilma Rousseff's administration and corruption in Brazil: the "higher education effect"

Authors

  • Marcelo Justus Universidade de Campinas - Instituto de Economia.
  • Gustavo Oliveira Aggio Universidade de Campinas, Instituto de Economia

Abstract

This paper is mainly intended to answer the following question: what role did higher education play in determining the scale of street protests against the administration of president Dilma Rousseff and against cases of corruption in the federal administration that were held in Brazil from March, 2015 to March, 2016? We found a positive relationship between the percentage of higher education graduates in the population aged 25 or older and the demonstration rate per 1,000 population.

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Author Biography

Marcelo Justus, Universidade de Campinas - Instituto de Economia.

Marcelo Justus é mestre e doutor em Economia Aplicada pela Universidade de São Paulo. É professor no Instituto de Economia da Universidade de Campinas (IE-Unicamp), onde também é professor permanente do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Economia, c coordenador e professor na Especialização em Direito & Economia da Unicamp (www.direitoeconomia.com.br), e coordenador do Núcleo de Economia Social, Urbana e Regional do IE-Unicamp. Atua principalmente em duas linhas de pesquisa: economia do crime e economia da saúde.

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Published

2018-04-30

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2018): Economic Analysis of Law Review

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Papers

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