The aim of this article is to realize a comparative methodological exercise of two APC estimators: the conventional restrict estimator obtained by the generalized linear models (MLGR) and the so-called intrinsec estimator (EI). Both instruments are contrasted by means of the parameter estimates...

This article aims to contribute to the understanding of the inequality of educational opportunities in Brazil, identifying the magnitude of the relationships between social origins and the probability of progression on the educational scale between 1986 and 2008. We apply the Grade Progression...

Abstract Separating the effects of ages, periods, and cohorts is a classic problem not only in epidemiology but also in demography and the social sciences in general. Frost provides a classic example in epidemiology that I use as an empirical example. In the classic age–period–cohort (APC)...