Changes in Population, Inequality and Human Capital Formation in the Americas in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Assessing the educational performance of different Brazilian school cycles using data science methods

“…In the past few years, socioeconomic differences have increased dramatically in Brazil [11], therefore new results may complement previous findings and assist public decision makers to propose new alternatives to mitigate poor academic performance. The Brazilian educational system is marked by the slow development of formal education, initially restricted to social layers with greater economic power, which has contributed to the economic disparities across the regions of the country [12,13] S1 Fig and S1 Table. Several measures have been taken and school enrollment has increased massively in recent decades [12,14], moving the focus now to difficulties related to quality and continuity of the studies until the final years of high school.…”