Intro -- Apresentação: O Imaginário industrializado -- Primeira parte: A formação do telespaço público -- 1. A instância da imagem ao vivo -- 2. Opinião pública, o mito imprescindível -- 3. Existe razão na comunicação? -- 4. As "telepresenças" definem o telespaço público --...

Our objective is to analyze the gravity of panel attrition in the Brazilian Monthly Employment Survey (PME). There are three types of panel attrition: a) random, that does not produce any selection bias; b) function of observables, whose bias can be corrected through an appropriate re-weighing...

This paper investigates the main determinants of grade repetition using the Brazilian school census between 2007 and 2010. For the first time such a study is conducted with all students in a panel. We begin with a brief analysis of attrition in the school census and then estimate logistic...