Improving school quality in Brazil

• Processo: 07/50191-6
• Modalidade de apoio: Bolsas no Exterior - Pesquisa
• Data de Início da vigência: 06 de setembro de 2007
• Data de Término da vigência: 05 de fevereiro de 2008
• Área de conhecimento: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas - Economia - Economia do Bem-estar Social
• Pesquisador responsável: Ana Lucia Kassouf
• Beneficiário: Ana Lucia Kassouf
• Pesquisador Anfitrião: Paul Glewwe
• Instituição Sede: Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALQ). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Piracicaba , SP, Brasil
• Instituição Anfitriã: University of Minnesota (U of M), Estados Unidos
• Assunto(s): Qualidade da educação
• Palavra(s)-Chave do Pesquisador: Escolas Privadas | Escolas Publicas | Infraestrutura Escolar | Qualidade Da Educacao | Saeb

Resumo

This research will analyze the impact of child's characteristics and motivation, parent's characteristics and capacity to help their children with schoolwork, teachers interpersonal skills and motivation, the management skills of school principals and school infrastructure on students performance in school, trying to identify the most relevant factors to improve school quality in Brazil. SAEB data will be used. Econometric problems raised by the literature will be taken into account, such as omitted variable bias, endogeneity of school quality, sample selectivity, lack of independence among students in the same school and colinearity among variables. Moreover, public and private institutions will be compared as a way to identify specific policies to improve public school quality. (AU)