O Papai Sumiu! Evidências da Influência da Estrutura Familiar no Resultado Econômico dos Indivíduos

Abstract

The purpose of this article is measure the impact of family structure on inequality of Brazilian opportunities between the years 2001 and 2013 using data from the National Survey by Household Sampling (PNAD). For this, we adopted the estimation of the average treatment effect from the propensity score matching, as the treatment the family composition (two or single parent) controlled by a set of circumstances variables and proxies for effort. Furthermore, a sensitivity analysis and return of education as robustness. Among the results, is showing that being the son of a biparental family reveals an income differential between 9% and 15% rather than single-parent family headed by the mother.