A Hipótese de Kuznets para os Municípios Brasileiros: Testes para as Formas Funcionais e Estimações Não-Paramétricas

Erik Figueiredo and Julio César Araújo da Silva Junior
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Julio César Araújo da Silva Junior: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Bolsista CNPq

Economia, 2011, vol. 12, issue 1, 149_165

Abstract: The main aim of this paper was to analyse the existence of Kuznets hypothesis for the Brazilian Municipalities from 1991 to 2000. The empirical strategy was based on three steps. The first one consists in testing the quantile specification proposed by Racine (2006). The second was to use the non-parametrical estimation B-splines according to Koenker et alii (1994). Finally, the third step was to test Fan et alii (2001) Likelihood ratio. The results show that the quantile linear specification is inconsistent. The non parametrical estimation confirms the Kuznets hypothesis. The Likelihood ratio proves the goodness to fit of the non parametrical estimations comparing to the linear ones.

Keywords: Hipótese de Kuznets; Municípios Brasileiros; Testes para Especificação; B-Splines; Razão de Verossimilhança (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 C21 O11 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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