We estimate the returns to education for women and the racial wage differential among women over the wage distribution in Brazil by using quantile regression with semiparametric correction for sample selection. Our estimates show that the returns to education are high and that they are not...

The gender gap measured by average number of years of schooling for the Brazilian population had favored the male population up to the 1980 Census. In 1991, though it was reversed and women averaged .26 year more of schooling than their male counterparts. These aggregated statistics fudge...

Education differentials by region and by gender among the Brazilian population are quite large. This is partially due to the different probability of access to the school system as well as the drop out probability. This paper computes and describes the proportion of population that achieved a...