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Procurement is one of the main forms of acquisition of the Federal Government and are subject to fraud and corruption. In this context, many institutions such as the Brazilian Office of the Controller General try to identify fraud evidences, e.g., use of queries in databases with information about partnership of companies owned by the same group of people to simulate competition. However, many of...
Regression-Discontinuity Design is a non-experimental method to estimate the impacts of social welfare programs in situations where the treatment assignment is determined by whether an observed variable (running variable) is above or below a known cutoff point. The main idea behind RDD is that individuals whose running variable is just above or just below the cutoff are similar, and so, any differences...
Set the date range to filter the displayed results. You can set a starting date, ending date or both. You can enter the dates manually or choose them from the calendar.