Center from Metropolitan Studies promotes on May 28th (from 5.30  to 7.30 pm) the seminar with the researcher and professor Leticia Marteleto intitled "Inequality of Opportunity and Educational Outcomes among Young Brazilians". The event takes place on the Cidade Iniversitária, in FFLCH, Social Sciences and Philosophy Building, Room 8 and is open to all interested without prior registration.

Abstract

Brazil experienced significant social, economic and demographic changes in recent decades. There were also gains unprecedented in the education of adolescents and young Brazilians. However, significant inequalities in educational opportunities and outcomes persist. In a series of articles recently published Marteleto examines educational inequalities related to race / color (Marteleto 2012), family size (Marteleto and Souza 2012, 2013), social origin (Marteleto et al. 2012) and maternal age (Marteleto and Dondero 2013 ). Using data from PNAD 1977-2012 and methodologies of twins, "cool effects" and instrumental variables, this set of articles also addresses topics such as color identification and its consequences, demographic change, and adolescent labor. Following one of my last works (Marteleto and Dondero 2014), present a methodology for identifying the color - association educational outcomes in Brazil that takes into account unobserved heterogeneity , an issue rarely given due consideration in the literature on the subject.

Papers related with te Seminar can be downloaded here:

• The Changing Impact of Family Size on Adolescents’Schooling: Assessing the Exogenous Variation in Fertility Using Twins in Brazil, Letícia J. Marteleto & Laetícia R. de Souza.
• Educational Inequality by Race in Brazil, 1982–2007: Structural Changes and Shifts in Racial Classification, Leticia J. Marteleto 

Profile

Leticia J. Marteleto (Ph.D., Sociology, University of Michigan) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and a Faculty Research Associate of the Population Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin. She is also a Research Affiliate of the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS) at the same university.  She is the coordinator at the American side, the project "Educational inequalities, work transitions and social inequalities in Brazil", a cooperative that brings together the Center for Metropolitan Studies, the Department of Sociology at USP and the University of Texas-Austin, recently approved by FAPESP. His research focuses on issues of educational inequality, social demography and transitions to adulthood in Brazil and South Africa appear Latest articles published in journals Demography, Demographic Research, Sociology of Education, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility and Social Forces. Before joining the University of Texas-Austin was professor at the University of Michigan and a resident consultant at the United Nations in New York.