The effect of school inputs upon educational outcomes has been extensively studies in the literature but there are still no conclusions as to its impacts. This paper presents results that suggest a strong impact of inputs upon age-grade lag for Brazilian primary schools between 1998 and 2005. We...

In this text we attempt to track the main changes in the block of questions that pertains to education in the Pesquisas Nacionais por Amostra de Domicílios (PNAD). We discuss the evolution of the questions and their flow, as well as point out small changes in the measured results in the 1988,...

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...

This paper presents an analysis of the educational situation in the States of North region, Maranhão and Mato Grosso, which constitute what is called Amazônia Legal. The period of the analysis contains the years between 1996 and 1998, focusing in the elementary and high school education, due...

This dissertation is an empirical investigation on the validity of main relationships, established in a theoretical model developed by Ferreira (2001), about the interaction between income, educational and political inequalities, as well as the influence of these inequalities on an economy's per...

The high degree of income inequality is a chronic trait of the Brazilian society, and is in the center of the country's social-political agenda. The social demand for public policies that contribute to narrowing the differentials and disparities is intense and has been increasing in recent...