Fertility and Inequality: Evidence from Brazil

• Grant number: 17/19403-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: January 01, 2018
• End date: February 29, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Economics - Regional and Urban Economics
• Principal Investigator: Eduardo Amaral Haddad
• Grantee: Michael Tulio Ramos de França
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade (FEA). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 14/50848-9 - INCT 2014: INCT for Climate Change, AP.PFPMCG.TEM
• Associated scholarship(s): 18/06782-4 - Fertility and Inequality, BE.EP.DR

Abstract

There is a growing literature linking fertility and development. In some contexts, fertility distribution may become an important mechanism for the intergenerational propagation of socioeconomic inequalities. Thus, the proposal of this research project is to investigate the possible effects of fertility on the evolution of Brazil's socioeconomic inequality. The initial results of an exploratory analysis of the data pointed to a positive relation of these variables. Among the possible ways of estimating this relationship, we intend to explore the potential exogenous variation in fertility caused by climate change and the entry of Rede Globo into the Brazilian spatial context.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

FRANÇA, Michael Tulio Ramos de. Fertility, racial Identification and Inequality. 2020. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade (FEA/SBD) São Paulo.