Urban segregation and school backwardness in Rio de Janeiro

Fátima Alves Kalil, Creso Franco and Luiz Cesar Queiroz Ribeiro

Revista CEPAL, 2008

Abstract: This article analyses a dimension that is almost completely absentfrom studies on the socio-territorial mechanisms that reproduce inequalitiesin Brazil: differences in the risk of school backwardness among childrenand young people between 7 and 17 years of age, based on residentialsegregation in Rio de Janeiro. Data from the 2000 Population Censuswere used to construct two sets of multilevel logistic regression models toquantify the risk of school backwardness among primary school students infourth and eighth grade, according to individual characteristics, family socioeducationalconditions and the social setting of their place of residence.Apart from showing that residence in a ghetto (favela); is associated witha higher risk of school backwardness, the results show that the risk ofbackwardness and school dropout is higher among inhabitants of favelaslocated in wealthy neighbourhoods. Possible explanatory mechanisms forthese findings are reviewed.

Date: 2008-04
Note: Includes bibliography
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://repositorio.cepal.org/handle/11362/11267

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ecr:col070:11267

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Revista CEPAL from Naciones Unidas Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Biblioteca CEPAL ().