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discrimination against obese and very thin students using PeNSE microdata. Data indicate that students that classify themselves as … rarely or never understand their problems and preoccupations. Econometric model shows that non "normal" students have a … greater chance of suffering FB than "normal" pupils. Male students have greater chance of being frequently discriminated when …
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discrimination against obese and very thin students using PeNSE microdata. Data indicate that students that classify themselves as … rarely or never understand their problems and preoccupations. Econometric model shows that non "normal" students have a … greater chance of suffering FB than "normal" pupils. Male students have greater chance of being frequently discriminated when …
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Providing access to education for low-income populations is essential to reduce inequalities and promote social … inclusion. Although the spatial dimension of inequalities in access to education has received attention in recent studies, there … public transport, the study investigates education- -related social exclusion in the intra-urban scale as well as across …
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One of the main goals of transportation policies is to improve the people's access to employment opportunities, public services, and amenities. For this reason, an increasing number of transportation and funding agencies have sought to incorporate accessibility studies in the planning and...
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We examine the extent to which education is a main determinant of affluence in Brazil. We focus on workers in the top 1 … main conclusion is that while education may be important to explain total inequality, there is no evidence that mass … education is a major factor explaining the differences between the rich and the rest of the population. Not even elite education …
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the income. The literature appears that among the determinant of this disparity, besides historical factors, the education … variable education and your impacts on the income of the work. The adopted model will be a hybrid of the considered square … minima proposed by Hoffmann and Scampini (1996) and Mincer function, trying to capture the effects of the variable education …
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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...
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reduce inequality and poverty and only a significant scale-up of university education would lead to much lower levels of … only have occurred under optimistic assumptions about growth, job-skill matching, and non-declining returns to education …. In short, education is not a panacea to poverty and inequality. These results are robust when tested with different data …
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This paper analyses two tax reform bills that are being discussed at the Brazilian National Congress, by comparing them and pointing their advantages and drawbacks. Moreover, the paper provides four empirical contributions to the debate: i) neutral rate estimates for the new Goods and Services...
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