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-grade lag for Brazilian primary schools between 1998 and 2005. We use more than one estimation method, but the results we …
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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...
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-grade lag for Brazilian primary schools between 1998 and 2005. We use more than one estimation method, but the results we …
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engineering students in 2011. Brazil is the only country where compulsory national exams are applied to last year tertiary … education students. This sets a unique opportunity to model student achievement on tertiary education as a function of …, and well-designed teaching-and-learning plans seem to be particularly relevant for industrial students. In average …
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This paper provides an analysis of the labor market for individuals with tertiary education in Brazil using data from the 2010 Census. Labor earnings inequality is remarkable among Brazilian workers with a bachelor's degree. Evidence indicates that heterogeneous returns across fields of study...
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with attendance rates to higher education. In order to compare the situation of Brazil in the international context, a … main limiting factors for the achievement of the target of net attendance rate of 33% set out in the bill of the National …
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This text analyzes the evolution of the cognitive abilities of Brazilian youth as measured by Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa). Our results are quite positive. In spite of an increase of youth eligible for the PISA universe and, therefore, a reduction in selectivity,...
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