Tabata Amaral: And then, for the nerdier among you following us, there's an economist named Pais de Barros who is from INSPER in São Paulo, highly recognized.
Tabata Amaral: And he has several studies on the issue of dropout.
And he shows that, before the pé de meia, Brazil was losing 3% of GDP because of school dropout.
Tabata Amaral: Just to give a stat: those who didn't finish high school in Brazil lived 3 to 4 fewer years than those who did.
Tabata Amaral: They were less productive, more likely to be imprisoned, more likely to have a serious illness.