The objective of this paper is to explore the interplay between schooling and demographics in Brazil. We would like to … distribution of educational endowments of the total labor force. This answer depends on two factors. The first is the demographic … distribution of schooling within each cohort - its average educational level and the inequality within each cohort. These two …

evaluates the evolution of schooling for each sex, using cohorts for the available censuses. It also analyses data on the school … population from the different censuses and from Elementary and High School Evaluation System (Saeb). Saeb data concerns … exclusively on elementary school 4th and 8th graders and high school 3rd graders. The main conclusion is that women have been …

in Brazil by using quantile regression with semiparametric correction for sample selection. Our estimates show that the …