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Inequality of opportunity in daycare and preschool services in Brazil

Veloso, Fernando A.; Foguel, Miguel Nathan

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In this paper we measure inequality of opportunity in daycare and preschool services in Brazil. For this purpose, we construct an opportunity index that modifies the human opportunity index proposed in the literature and used in Barros et al. (2009) to measure inequality in basic opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean. Specifically, we construct an opportunity measure that includes not only attendance but also parental choice not to enroll children in daycare or preschool, using data from a supplementary questionnaire included in the 2006 version of Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios (PNAD). The results show that there are large differences between our opportunity index and the human opportunity index for children aged 0-3 years old and considerably smaller differences for children aged 4-6 years old, which suggests that preschool may be closer to a basic opportunity than daycare.

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Tipo
Estudo
Ano
2012
Instituição
Fundação Getulio Vargas
Idioma
Inglês
Acesso
Não informado
Identificador
oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/11795

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