Rute Cardoso, Ana; Verner, Dorte - In: El Trimestre Económico LXXVIII (2) (2011) 310, pp. 377-402
This paper aims to identify the major factors that lead to school abandonment in an urban surrounding, namely, the shantytowns of Fortaleza, northeast Brazil. We use an extensive survey addressing risk factors faced by the population in these neighborhoods, which covered both in-school and...