QUANTO TEMPO UM JOVEM QUE TRABALHA PERDE PARA SE EDUCAR?

The article analyzes the impact on education of young people of 15 to 18 years old who work, in Brazil in the last decade, using data from the national household survey (PNAD). We compare the school delay of those who never worked with those who work more than a year and the impact of additional years of working using a propensity score matching. The main conclusion is that working increases up to1,3 years the school delay but additional years of working have a much weaker effect.

Partisan Goals and Electoral Interests: Brazilian Economic Reforms under Lula

Almost everyone was surprised by the reforms proposed by the Lula administration in Brazil. Once in power, they proposed reforms they voted against when in opposition. We analyze a game in which political parties, with partisan and electoral interest, try to approve reforms that benefit the majority of population but face an opposition with substantial power to determine their fate. The Opposition’s behavior may lead to different equilibrium: approval of the reform after an electoral cycle, with the party initially against the reform making it their own; not approval, with the parties taking turn in power; not approval, with the party that originally proposed the reform remaining in power, but with the deterioration of the economic situationEconomic Reforms, Electoral Interest, Partisan Interest

Decentralization And Education Performance: A First View To The Brazilian Process

This paper analyses the impact of the decentralization in educational system that is taking place in Brazil inthe last decade, as a result of several laws that encourage municipalities to invest in fundamental education.The proficiency tests undertaken by the government allows to follow some public schools in two points intime. Therefore we were able to create an experimental group with the schools that were under state system inthe SAEB exam and have migrated to the municipality system by the time of Prova Brasil and a control groupwith the schools that were under the state system between the two exams and compare the difference in theirresults using a fixed effect panel data analysis. The difference in difference estimator indicates that there is nosignificant change in the performance of the students.