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Title

Opportunity foregone : education in Brazil / Nancy Birdsall and Richard H. Sabot, editors.

Publication

Washington, DC : Inter-American Development Bank ; Baltimore, MD : Distributed by The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Birdsall, Nancy.
• Sabot, R. H.

Description

xvi, 566 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

• Fundamental changes in Brazilian economic policy in the mid-1990s have dramatically slowed inflation and set the stage for sustained growth. These gains provide the opportunity to turn to other social and economic problems overshadowed for years by the country's macroeconomic problems. Among the most important issues on the agenda is education.
• Opportunity Foregone: Education in Brazil offers a frank and thorough assessment of the country's educational performance and the resulting social costs. It identifies necessary reforms and the barriers to reform. The book's 18 studies examine a wide variety of key issues regarding the economics of education in Brazil.

Alternative Title

Education in Brazil

Subjects

• Educational equalization > Brazil
• Wages > Effect of education on > Brazil
• Education > Brazil > Evaluation
• Education and state > Brazil
• Education > Economic aspects > Brazil

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Introduction / Paulo Renato Souza -- Ch. 1. Education in Brazil: Playing a Bad Hand Badly / Nancy Birdsall, Barbara Bruns and Richard H. Sabot -- Ch. 2. Where Does Brazil Fit? Schooling Investments in an International Perspective / Jere R. Behrman and Ryan Schneider -- Ch. 3. Education and Economic Growth: Some Cross-Sectional Evidence / Lawrence J. Lau, Dean T. Jamison, Shucheng Liu and Steven Rivkin -- Ch. 4. Why Brazil Lags Behind in Educational Development / David N. Plank, Jose Amaral Sobrinho and Antonio Carlos da Ressurreicao Xavier -- Ch. 5. Wages, Schooling and Background: Investments in Men and Women in Urban Brazil / John Strauss and Duncan Thomas -- Ch. 6. Temporal Evolution of the Relationship between Wages and Education of Brazilian Men / Ricardo Barros and Lauro Ramos -- Ch. 7. Do Returns to Schooling Vary Across Industries? / Donald Robbins and Mari Minowa --
• Ch. 8. The Quality of Schooling and Labor Market Outcomes / Jere R. Behrman, Nancy Birdsall and Robert Kaplan -- Ch. 9. Educational Expansion and the Inequality of Pay in Brazil and Korea / Young-Bum Park, David R. Ross and Richard H. Sabot -- Ch. 10. Social Mobility: The Role of Education in Determining Status / Jose Pastore and Helio Zylberstajn -- Ch. 11. Education, Mobility and Growth / Irma Adelman, Samuel Morley, Christoph Schenzler and Stephen Vogel -- Ch. 12. Income and Educational Inequality and Children's Schooling Attainment / Ricardo Barros and David Lam -- Ch. 13. Family Background, Quality of Education and Public and Private Schools: Effects on School Transitions / Alberto de Mello e Souza and Nelson do Valle Silva -- Ch. 14. Efficiency-Enhancing Investments in School Quality / Eric A. Hanushek, Joao Batista Gomes-Neto and Ralph W. Harbison -- Ch. 15. The Causes and Effects of Grade Repetition / Joao Batista Gomes-Neto and Eric A. Hanushek --
• Ch. 16. Private Education and Public Regulation / Estelle James, Carlos Alberto Primo Braga and Paulo de Tarso Afonso de Andre -- Ch. 17. Dealing With Poor Students / Claudio de Moura Castro, Sonia Dantas Pinto Guimaraes, Joao Batista Araujo e Oliveira and Sergio Costa Ribeiro -- Ch. 18. The Economics of Higher Education / Jean-Jacques Paul and Laurence Wolff.

ISBN

1886938032

LCCN

96077344

OCLC

ocm35746142

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries