Ensaios em economia da educação: efeitos da escola, programa mais educação e background familiar sobre o desempenho dos estudantes

• Ano de defesa: 2016
• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Vera Lucia da
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Palavras-chave em Português: Desempenho escolar; Herança educacional dos pais; Política educacional; Qualificação e estabilidade dos professores
• Link de acesso: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/22002

This thesis is related to Economics of Education, whose main focus is based upon an education production function to measure the students’ performance. Although the main components of this function are investigated separately, consistency is expected in comparing effects. Using this logic an evaluation is made of student performance in portuguese language and mathematics proficiencies resulting from the vectors: school, education policy and family, represented respectively by teacher’s qualification, the government program More Education and parents educational background. In the first essay, it was approached the effect of qualification, experience and stability of teachers in the performance of students of the South /Southeast and the Northeast regions of Brazil, leading to the analysis of the main characteristics of elementary school teachers. The results from Propensity Score Matching (PSM) method based upon teachers’ participation in Continuing Education program, professional experience and employment stability lead to a positive and significant effect on student performance in both regions analyzed, but with different magnitudes. Continued professional education and experience presented greater impact on proficiency in mathematics for the South/Southeast regions. The effect of professional experience in student performance in mathematics is higher in the South / Southeast and the effect of proficiency in Portuguese is greater in the Northeast, where the effect of professor stability fosters students’ performance more significantly. The second trial analyzed the impact of the More Education Program in the state schools of Ceará with regard to performance of students in the 9th grade of elementary school in Portuguese and Mathematics. The results measured by the Difference in Differences method showed negative impact in relation to school performance and school IDEB. For the dropout rate, the estimated effect was statistically insignificant. The third trial, estimated by PSM method, investigated the effect of educational heritage of parents upon the performances of students of the 9th grade of elementary school in Portuguese Language and Mathematics assessed by SAEB 2011 for the South / Southeast and Northeast regions of Brazil. The estimated results using PSM verified that educational heritage of parents has a positive and significant impact on student performance