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capital investments. Combining a number of large georeferenced administrative datasets from Brazil, we estimate the effect of … data on student- and parent-reported aspirations and attitudes towards education allow us to explore the channels …
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first federal university in Brazil to adopt affirmative action for low-income individuals. In general, the results indicate …
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university in Brazil, we apply a regression discontinuity design to study the effect of class allocation on academic performance … students, a group of disadvantaged Black and mixed-race students from low-income families and with lower levels of education …
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shock, children of more exposed fathers have lower education and earnings, lower chances of formal jobs, and are more likely …
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This paper studies the unintended long-run effects of a permanent agricultural shock led by agro-terrorism in Brazil on … the education and labour market. We explore the witches' broom outbreak in cocoa farms in the world's second most … important cocoa production region until 1989, the southeast of Bahia state in the northeast of Brazil. Although the introduction …
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increasing approved student enrolment in postgraduate education programmes in Brazil. Even though the programme could have …' human capital and interest in science and postgraduate education studies through a substantial increase in scholarships for …
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. However, there is still very limited data on urban accessibility in Brazil due to computational and methodological challenges … methodology for the twenty largest cities in Brazil. This database is made publicly available by the Ipea through the website of …
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several years after the shock, children of more exposed fathers have lower education and earnings, lower chances of formal …
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Developing countries have long been struggling to fight informality, focusing on instruments such as labor legislation enforcement, temporary contracts, and changes in taxes imposed on small firms. However, improvements in the labor force’s schooling and skill level may be more effective in...
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combining detailed school characteristics with time and geo-referenced crime information from the city of São Paulo, Brazil, we …
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