Inequality of educational opportunities: Evidence from Brazil

This paper aims to estimate the inequalities of educational opportunities of 5th and 9th-grade students in Brazil and its states, verifying the relative contribution of each analyzed variable to this inequality. For this purpose, we used the new methodology developed by Ferreira and Gignoux (2014) c...

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Main Authors: Marcos Vinicio Wink Junior, Luis Henrique Zanandréa Paese
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Emerald Publishing 2019-05-01
Series:EconomiA
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1517758018301772