Ensaios sobre os determinantes do atraso escolar no Brasil

Abstract

This work suggests analyze associated factors due, Brazilian’s teenagers´ school delay trough the estimation from a logistic model. The first article analyzes how socioeconomics roots and educational inputs have influence on school delay. Utilizing the survey Sistema de Avaliação da Educação Básica 2011 (SAEB) we observed variables related to students and their families also variables to the schools attributes and its teachers. Due to the endogeneity presented by refereed variables to schools, we estimated a controlled logistic model for fixed effects. The option of studying independently urban and rural areas is due to high levels of discrepancies between age and grade on the rural areas. On generally the results found follows the literature that defends the socioeconomic origin as major determining on educational results. Socioeconomics conditions, health and risk behavior experimented on teenager may bring problems to scholar success. The second work analyzes how these factors have impact on school delay utilizing the longitudinal data the 1993 Pelotas birth cohort. The result shows that socioeconomic factors, health conditions and behavioral characteristics are determinant on educational results. Risk behavior seems to have a strong influence on academic development. Alcohol, tobacco and early pregnancy rises significantly the chances of scholar delay on teenagers.