Youngsters by color and income in the access to higher education: adding disadvantages, multiplying inequalities

In the last decades Brazil experienced a growing educational expansion accompanied by a set of public policies and social programs of incentive to increase enrollment of the poorest, public school graduates and the black and indigenous populations. Using data from the National Household Sample Survey (PNAD), the article aims to analyze to what extent this expansion changed the unequal chances of young people (18-29 years), white and black, with higher and lower income, in the access to higher education in Brazil.

Inequality; Higher Education; youngsters; Color/Race