Browsing by Author "Ponczek, Vladimir Pinheiro"
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Uma análise dos fatores associados à frequência ao ensino médio na educação de jovens e adultos (EJA) no Brasil
2013-12-09Um dos grandes desafios atuais da política educacional brasileira é compreender as razões da chamada crise de audiência do ensino médio. Como alternativa à modalidade regular, jovens a partir dos 17 anos podem optar pela ... -
The Building blocks of skill development
2017The recent literature on human capital formation has emphasized the dynamic process of skills formation throughout the lifecycle. In particular, the importance of developing these skills early in life has been widely ... -
The building blocks of skill development
2016The recent literature on human capital formation has emphasized the dynamic process of skills formation throughout the lifecycle. In particular, the importance of developing these skills early in life has been widely ... -
The causal effect of family size on child labor and education
2007-07-20This paper investigates the causal relationship between family size and child labor and education among brazilian children. More especifically, it analyzes the impact of family size on child labor, school attendance, ... -
Child labor and learning
2013-12-05This paper investigates the impact of working while in school on learning outcomes through the use of a unique micro panel dataset of Brazilian students. The potential endogeneity is addressed through the use of di ... -
College quality signaling and individual performance: effects on labor market outcomes after graduation
2019-05The association between college attendance and labor market premium is well-documented in existing literature. The signaling process plays a role in the explanation: college graduation serves as a signal for ability to the ... -
Correcting the fixed-effect estimator for endogenous switching
2007-07-20In this paper, we propose a two-step estimator for panel data models in which a binary covariate is endogenous. In the first stage, a random-effects probit model is estimated, having the endogenous variable as the left-hand ... -
Os determinantes do fluxo escolar entre o ensino fundamental e o ensino médio
2012-09-12Neste artigo estimam-se os fluxos escolares do ensino fundamental para o médio e os fluxos ao longo do médio para a última década nas seis maiores regiões metropolitanas do país. Também se estimam que conjuntos de variáveis ... -
O efeito do estigma sobre os beneficiários de programas de transferência no Brasil
2010-06-01Este artigo investiga o impacto do estigma sobre as decisões econômicas dos indivíduos beneficiados por algum programa de transferência federal. Estigma é definido aqui como a desutilidade resultante em participar de algum ... -
Efeitos da divisão municipal na oferta de bens públicos e indicadores sociais
2013-09-01This paper investigates the effects of the municipality secession occurred in Brazil in the last decades after the Constitution of 1988 on the supply of publicly provided goods and social indicators of those municipalities. ... -
Efeitos de pares em active learning: explorando alocação exógena de grupos
2018This paper investigates peer effects in higher education in an environment of active learning that gives great importance for students' interaction through group work. Our empirical strategy uses exogenous variation in ... -
The effects of adult literacy on earnings and employment
2012-09-12This paper provides evidence of the effects of adult literacy on individuals’ income and employability in Brazil based on information obtained from the monthly employment survey (PME). The OLS results indicate that after ... -
Evaluating the wage differential between public and private sectors in Brazil
2012This paper uses a rotating panel of households to analyze wage differentials between public and private sectors in Brazil. Focusing on the transition of individuals between jobs available in the public and private sectors ... -
Gender bias at the Brazilian superior labor court
2012-03-24This paper examines the existence of gender bias within the Brazilian Superior Labor Court SLC(TST). Our analysis utilizes a database comprising all the lawsuits decided by the Brazilian Superior Labor Court SLC(TST) between ... -
The impact of structured teaching methods on the quality of education
2012-09-12This paper estimates the impact of the use of structured methods on the quality of education of the students in primary public school in Brazil. Structure methods encompass a range of pedagogical and managerial instruments ... -
The impact of structured teaching methods on the quality of education in Brazil
2012-10This paper estimates the impact of the use of structured methods on the quality of education for students in primary public school in Brazil. Structured methods encompass a range of pedagogical and managerial instruments ... -
Impacto da alfabetização de adultos sobre salário e emprego
2010-06-17In this paper, we document some evidence about the impacts of adult alphabetization on earnings and labor force participation. The longitudinal data available in the Monthly Employment Survey (PME) allow us to control for ... -
Income and bargaining effects on education and health
2010-05-05In this paper, we examine the impacts of the reform in the rural pension system in Brazil in 1991 on schooling and health indicators. In addition, we use the reform to investigate the validity of the unitary model of ...
