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We study the impacts of family income and parental education on the probability of children’s schooling delay using the … 1996 PNAD. With the adoption of some hypotheses about the links between generations of children, parents and grandparents …, we control for the existence of non observable factors that simultaneously affect the income formation of parents and …
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This paper accounts for the value of children and future generations in the evaluation of health policies. This is …
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distribution of earnings and for the distribution of household income per capita. A large share of the poverty reducing effect of …
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income per capita. It is shown that observed circumstances are a major source of outcome inequality in Brazil, probably more … inequality reduction may require more direct income redistribution. …
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Although the self-selection of emigrants is determined by differences in the returns to education, according to the celebrated Roy model, empirical evidence suggests that migrants tend to be favorably selected. This paper argues that financial con- straints might be useful to explain this...
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We study the determinants of the public-private earnings gap for different levels of schooling of Brazilian workers. First, using the current earnings as the variable of interest, we estimate that less educated people receive higher earnings in the public sector (i.e., the earnings gap is...
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incidence of corruption across municipalities and controlling for students’, schools’ and municipal characteristics, we find … that corruption significantly reduces the school performance of primary school students. Students residing in …
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