In this article we show that among elementary school students in Brazil there is a negative and significant … relationship between within-class age dispersion and pupil’s proficiency. The relationship between the age-grade delay and school … proficiency is usually explained by several factors that influence the educational process, since both student’s age-grade and his …

Chile. The differences in achievement are also investigated across school types administration (public, private subsidized …

lower levels of formal education. Despite this variability, nearly all regions in Brazil showed an advance in schooling …

. Initially, we obtained different dimensions related to the student’s perception concerning himself, his school and his … subjective dimensions of student’s perception were also correlated to performance, such as: the human ambient in school; teacher … which factors were correlated to school performance with the use of OLS and Heckman models. We noted spatial differences …

Profluxo model, always with a focus in the secondary school. We observed that the proportion of students graduating from … primary school increased sharply in Brazil between 1997 and 2007. Moreover, relatively few students did dropout from secondary … period is specially touched by establishment of objectives, aspirations and desires, in particular regarding education and …

paper is to apprehend some of the features related to it. For men the transition from school to the labor market mainly … another transition, which is from school to the household. Choices are influenced by the schooling level attained by the girl …

objectives, aspirations and desires, in particular concerning education and the school. The objective of this working paper is to … demographic opportunities to ameliorate the educational system. After that, we verified that school frequency did not increase in … Brazil between 1997 and 2007, but that there was a decrease in age-grade distortion and an increase in formal education …