Unequal opportunity to survive, education and regional disparities in Brazil

ABSTRACT

It investigates the extent to which this large infant mortality rate (IMR) varies and so can be explained by level of education of parents and their region of residence. Determine and contrast the relative contribution to the degree of inequality in survival opportunities of two dimensions of family background: a) parents' education; b) parents' region of residence. Consider questions like are the risk of infant mortality more sensitive to parent's education or to region of residence? It aims to estimate the impact on the aggregated level of the IMR of different types of educational expansion and regional reallocation of the population. It decompose the variability in the impact of region of residence.