Oferta de escolas e retorno do ensino médio entre os jovens no Brasil

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Schooling attendance improved significantly in Brazil, mainly for primary schooling. Attendance levels however are still deficient at secondary level; where dropout levels also worries policy makers. This paper aims to estimate the wage premium for secondary education attained by young workers aged 20 to 24 in Brazil; as this could potentially lead to low levels of interest for attending secondary schools. We take into account the endogeneity of education in the wage equation, by employing a set of instruments that capture the supply density of schools in the municipality when the young worker was 15 years old; considered as the entry age for secondary school. The return estimates obtained by the method of instrumental variables ranged from 11% to 20%. The results also indicate that measures of school supply have a positive and significant relationship with the probability of a young person having completed high school.

Object Details

• Language: Portugiesisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Texto para Discussão ; No. 2804

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
• Subject: economic returns ; high school education ; instrumental variables ; human capital

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Franca, Maíra Penna ; Machado, Danielle Carusi ; Corseuil, Carlos Henrique
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA)
• (where): Brasília
• (when): 2022

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.38116/td2804
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/284860
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET