This paper aims at identifying the major drop-out and push-out factors that lead to school abandonment in an urban surrounding, the shantytowns of Fortaleza, Northeast Brazil. We use an extensive survey addressing risk factors faced by the population in these neighborhoods, which covered both...

We evaluate a program that aims to improve children's reading skills by providing classes with age-appropriate reading material and incentivizing children to read through a 31 day read-a-thon. During the read-a-thon, the program significantly increases the propensity of children to read, causing...

The notion of maltreated child has a very curious history, particularly in terms of socio-cultural anthropology. For a long time maltreatment was not even conceived, because social organization did not make possible this reflection. In some communities, the killing of newborns who were consider...

<p>Dennis Soltys reviews the second volume of a five-part series that will further comprise health, infrastructure, and governance. The first volume, on poverty, was reviewed by this author in the No. 2, 2010, issue of the journal of Poverty & Public Policy.</p>