This paper analyses the most important experiences with school accountability policy (SA) in Brazil. The analysis … incorporate a system in which the school is responsible for the students’ performance; (ii) or the incentive schemes are not …

bias). We work with three instruments: number of schools by the time parents were children; family factor changes across …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 …

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 …

family on the occurrence of child labor, as well as to analyze other characteristics which can influence such behavior. A … as a formal salaried worker. Among other results, it must be highlighted, making simulations, that increasing parents …