Like the inhabitants of the city Leonia, according to Italo Calvino, we live the era of consumerism and the exacerbated production of garbage. The problem of excessive waste from bulimic consumption has resulted in the emergence of recyclable waste pickers, who are supposed to have their...

The gender gap measured by average number of years of schooling for the Brazilian population had favored the male population up to the 1980 Census. In 1991, though it was reversed and women averaged .26 year more of schooling than their male counterparts. These aggregated statistics fudge...

Education differentials by region and by gender among the Brazilian population are quite large. This is partially due to the different probability of access to the school system as well as the drop out probability. This paper computes and describes the proportion of population that achieved a...