Desigualdade de oportunidade no acesso ao ensino superior nos meios urbano e rural das regiões brasileiras

Abstract

The present study aims to measure the inequality of opportunity there is no access to higher education considering the urban and rural environments of the Brazilian regions, seeking to identify how many are the main determinants of inequality of opportunity without access to the service studied. To do so, use a probabilistic me thod to obtain the dissimilarity index of the inequality of opportunity, and its decomposition was effected through the value-Shapley. The results showed that there was a decrease in the inequality of opportunity studied during the period analyzed. In addition, it was verified that a public policy that seeks to reduce inequality of achievement without access to Brazilian higher education, whether applied in urban or rural environments, obtains better re sults if for the one based on the increase of levels of family education and inclusion Of Youth with age, not higher education.