Restrição ao crédito educacional e investimentos em capital humano no Brasil: evidências através dos retornos à educação

• Ano de defesa: 2008
• Autor(a) principal: Oliva, Bruno Teodoro
• Orientador(a): Souza, André Portela Fernandes de
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Palavras-chave em Português: Retorno à educação; Variáveis instrumentais; Restrição ao crédito educacional
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/10438/1804

This paper aims to gauge the role of credit constraint on education in Brazil. For this purpose, we use the hypothesis that direct costs and opportunity costs of schooling affect credit constrained and unconstrained persons differently. While the opportunity costs affect everyone similarly, the direct costs affect more the credit constrained individuals. Using different instrumental variables to estimate the returns to education one can measure the role of credit constraint on education decisions. These impacts can be observed when different instruments are used, such as relative teachers supply (proxy for direct costs) and median wage of young workers (opportunity costs variable). We find a considerable difference in point estimation returns on education when using different instruments, suggesting the existence of credit constraints affecting the schooling decisions. However, the bad performance of the opportunity cost variable on the second stage turns any interpretation problematic.