Tabata Amaral: The difference is that it had never been... a big-scale bet, like it is today.
Tabata Amaral: So, I think my first contact with this came from some studies.
You know I'm a nerd, that I take evidence-based public policy seriously.
Tabata Amaral: So there are some prominent economists, like Pais de Barros, Laura Miller, Vitor Azevedo, who were producing work that I was consuming, I was reading.
Tabata Amaral: One study that marked me a lot showed how much Brazil was losing financially because of school dropout.