Barriers to skill acquisition in Brazil: Public and private school students performance in a public university entrance exam

Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 395-407

  Cavalcanti, Tiago ^a,c   Guimaraes, Juliana ^b,c   Sampaio, Breno ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWNHAM COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Inequality; Public and private schools; Test scores

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957281072     PISSN: 10629769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.qref.2010.08.001     Document Type: Article

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