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...

This paper provides an analysis of the labor market for individuals with tertiary education in Brazil using data from the 2010 Census. Labor earnings inequality is remarkable among Brazilian workers with a bachelor's degree. Evidence indicates that heterogeneous returns across fields of study...

The objective of this study is to analyze the patterns of Brazilian household consumption based on the gender and race of the head of the household. To do so, we estimated a simultaneous demand system for the six main aggregate consumption categories: housing, transportation, food, health,...