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Cassio Turra and Bernardo Queiroz Before it's too late: Demographic Transition, Labor Supply, and Social Security Problems in Brazil United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Social and Economic Implications of Changing Population Age Straucture. Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, Mexico City, August/2005.

Cassio Turra and Bernardo Queiroz Intergenerational Transfers and Socioeconomic Inequality in Brazil: a first look. Taller sobre Transformaciones Demograficas, Transferencias Intergeneracionales y Proteccion Social en America Latina. CELADE, Santiago, July/2005.

From 2001 to 2003 I worked as a research assistant for Professor John Wilmoth and Professor Kenneth Hill on the project Adult Mortality in Developing Countries. The research focused on both substantive and methodological issues for measuring adult mortality in developing countries and on levels, trends and patterns of such mortality. The papers presented at the Adult Mortality in Developing Countries Workshop (July/2004) can be found here. I worked with Kenneth Hill on a methodological paper adapting indirect mortality methods to migration, and on a paper with John Wilmoth and Danzhen You comparing data quality for eight populations over various time periods.

The paper The Impacts of Sex Ratios on Marriage Markets in the United States was presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America in Boston (April/2004).

Abstract:Sex ratios, the ratio between the number of males per female in a population, can affect decisions regarding marriage, marriage prospects and outcomes. Sex ratios are a good indicator of the availability of mates in a population and this play an important role when individuals are considering marriage. This paper uses the local marriage market sex ratios in the US (metropolitan areas) to study how the availability of individuals from the different sex affects decisions towards marriage and the selection of mates. The empirical results suggests that high sex ratios (more males than females) reduces the number of single females in a population, increases the number of single males and have a negative effect on the age differential between couples. Also, individual outcomes such as schooling and income level are much more related to individual and regional characteristics than to sex ratios. Sex ratios also appear to have little or no effect on the mating process, I observe that individuals tend to marry others with similar educational levels despite of the different availability of mates in a region.

The paper Regional Wage Differentials and Social Returns to Education was presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America in Minneapolis (May/2003).

Abstract:This paper contributes to the study of the regional wage differentials in Brazil. More specifically, examines the importance of personal attributes and regional characteristics in the observed variability of regional wages in Brazil. The paper makes two new contributions. First, it uses an alternative methodology, Hierarchical Linear Models. Second it analyzes counties in one particular state instead of studying metropolitan areas as is commonly done. The study finds regional effects on wage differentials and social effects of human capital in the regions .

The paper ''Dinamica Economica, Mercado de Trabalho e Diferenciais de Salarios nos Estados Brasileiros'', by Bernardo Queiroz and Cibele Cesar, presented at the ''XII Encontro Nacional de Estudos Populacionais da ABEP'' in Brazil (October/2000) is in Portuguese and appears in PDF format.

The paper ''O Crescimento da Atividade Feminina nos Anos Noventa no Brasil'', by Simone Wajnman, Bernardo Queiroz and Vania Liberato, presented at the ''XI Encontro Nacional de Estudo Populacionais da ABEP'' in Brazil (October/1998) is in Portuguese and appears in PDF format.

The paper ''As Mulheres Chefes de Domicilio nas Minas Gerais do Sexulo XIX'', by Bernardo Queiroz, Cristiana Andrande, Juliana Riani and Carolina Correa, presented at the ''IX Seminario sobre a Economia Mineira - CEDEPLAR/UFMG '' in Brazil (June/2000) is in Portuguese and appears in PDF format.

The paper ''Hierarquia Urbana em um Contexto de DesconcentracaoEconomica e Fragmentacao do Territorio: Questionamentos a Partir do Caso da Rede de Cidades Mineiras'', by Bernardo Queiroz and Tania Braga, presented at the ''VIII Encontro Nacional da ANPUR '' in Brazil (May/1999) is in Portuguese and appears in HTML.