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This study analyses the impact of institutional characteristics on the students' performance in the National Examination of Higher Education Courses (Provão). A sample of more than 92500 students from Management, Law and Civil Engineering who had made the tests in the year 2000 was analyzed....

Este estudo tem por objetivo analisar o impacto de características institucionais sobre o desempenho dos alunos no Exame Nacional de Cursos (Provão). Uma amostra de mais de 74.000 alunos das áreas de Administração, Direito e Engenharia Civil que realizaram os exames no ano de 2000 foi...

In Brazil, few studies have been devoted to proving the existence of and evaluating the internal inefficiencies of state universities. Such work, however, is highly important because state higher learning is free and a great amount of resources is involved in its maintenance. The objective of...

As desigualdades de oportunidades no Ensino Médio no Brasil foram estimadas a partir de análise dos microdados do Saeb para o período 1995 a 2005 relativos ao desempenho dos alunos do último ano do Ensino Médio em Língua Portuguesa e Matemática. As desigualdades de oportunidades foram...

Although Brazil is still the world’s leading exporter of green coffee, current studies demonstrate that Brazil has been losing power in the market, because the existing competition (rivalry and possibility to enter) imposed by countries, such as Colombia and Vietnam, is strong enough to...

This paper aims to analyze the technical efficiency of farms in Brazil and its regions, based on the data from the 2006 Census of Agriculture. More specifically, it seeks to compare the technical efficiency of family farms in relation to business farms, considering the regional differences in...