Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/284860 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
Texto para Discussão No. 2804
Publisher: 
Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA), Brasília
Abstract (Translated): 
Schooling attendance improved significantly in Brazil, mainly for primary schooling. Attendance levels however are still deficient at secondary level; where dropout levels also worries policy makers. This paper aims to estimate the wage premium for secondary education attained by young workers aged 20 to 24 in Brazil; as this could potentially lead to low levels of interest for attending secondary schools. We take into account the endogeneity of education in the wage equation, by employing a set of instruments that capture the supply density of schools in the municipality when the young worker was 15 years old; considered as the entry age for secondary school. The return estimates obtained by the method of instrumental variables ranged from 11% to 20%. The results also indicate that measures of school supply have a positive and significant relationship with the probability of a young person having completed high school.
Subjects: 
economic returns
high school education
instrumental variables
human capital
JEL: 
J21
J24
J31
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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