This paper starts with a review of the three demographic components, stressing the decline in fertility, with the possibility of reaching below replacement fertility. Studies on new trends in Brazilian out migration are considered relevant for future research. The demography of compositional...

The main objective of this study is to assess the quality of municipal spending of the State of Ceara in education and health. Using the non-parametric methodology data envelopment analysis, efficiency rates are estimated, considering indicators of input and product. To do so, a bias correction...

The existence of higher education institutions (HEIs), dispersed in different locations throughout the country, is probably one of the most striking features associated with the expansion of this level of education in Portugal in the last 40 years. This phenomenon is particularly relevant since...

The objective of this study is to analyze the practice of incubating solidarity economy enterprises as a vector of university extension in Brazil. To this end, a bibliographic and bibliometric research was carried out on dissertations and theses defended in Brazilian higher education...

This text set out to survey long-term trends in the Ministry of Education - MEC budget. A first point was the construction of a twenty-year series of commitments settled in the MEC budget in open public consultations available to the general public. Having done this, a second point, already...

In this study, we investigated the determinants of differences between Brazilian municipalities regarding compliance with the rule for purchasing products from family farming for the National School Feeding Program (Programa Nacional de Alimentação Escolar - PNAE), resulting from Law No....

This paper estimates the relative technical efficiency of Brazilian municipalities in the public education using the DEA model along with tobit regressions with the aid of re sampling methods. The jackstrap method enabled the estimation of robust efficiency scores, while the bootstrap allowed...

This text for discussion addresses the implications of the new tax regimes - Union and states - in the financing of public education. It adopts the disaffection of taxation as the northern implications, and concludes that the changes generated a less cooperative, more restrictive in terms of...

This study evaluated the impact of Fies on the total time and delay in the completion of higher education of students enrolled in presential courses of private institutions, based on information of INEP from 2007 to 2017. Estimates of the Average Treatment Effect on Treated indicated that...

This study aims to analyze the quantile treatment effect of Prouni on the students' Enade grades from 2015 to 2017. The results indicated that the impact of the program was positive throughout the grades distribution, mainly for students who received full scholarship. The impact was also greater...