PeNSE 2012 is a survey conducted by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), in partnership with the Ministry of Health. PeNSE covers a broad range of subjects, especially risk behavior. This article has the aim of analyzing discrimination against obese and very thin students...

This article investigates the socioeconomic impacts of unemployment on different groups of individuals, and specially addresses the family circulation of goods and services during the job search. For this, it examines the vocabularies of 245 workers in semi-structured interviews carried out by...

The main objective of this paper is to do a content analysis of the production of master’s theses and doctoral dissertations of the graduate program in Demography at Cedeplar/UFMG between April 1989 and May 2009. More specifically, the paper aims at (i) verifying how the topics under study...

Changes in the family structure and impacts on the poverty reduction in Brazil - The main purpose of this paper is to analyze the association among observed changes in the family structure and the poverty condition in Brazil between 1981 and 2006. It will be highlighted: a) changes in the family...

Recent research reveals a negative impact of divorce on children's welfare as a consequence of the reduction in monetary and time contributions by the non-custodian parent. When the custody arrangement is sole custody, the variables that link the absent parent to the child are visitations and...

This text is part of the project Radiografia do Brasil Contemporâneo, developed by the Ipea between 2015 and 2016. Particularly, by a qualitative approach, the research analyzes the trajectories of individuals living in the city of Salvador, capital of Bahia, noting the experiences of family...

This text is part of the project Radiografia do Brasil Contemporâneo, developed by the Ipea between 2015 and 2016. Particularly, by a qualitative approach, the research analyzes the trajectories of individuals living in the city of Salvador, capital of Bahia, noting the experiences of family...

PeNSE 2012 is a survey conducted by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), in partnership with the Ministry of Health. PeNSE covers a broad range of subjects, especially risk behavior. This article has the aim of analyzing discrimination against obese and very thin students...

Russian Abstract: За последние десятилетия демографическая ситуация в Российской Федерации существенно изменилась. В начале 1990-х годов в период серьёзных...