Description: Conditional Cash Transfers, Schooling, and Child Labor : Micro-Simulating Brazil's Bolsa Escola Program

Conditional Cash Transfers, Schooling, and Child Labor : Micro-Simulating Brazil's Bolsa Escola Program

A growing number of developing economies are providing cash transfers to poor people that require certain behaviors on their part, such as attending school or regularly visiting health care facilities. A simple ex ante methodology is proposed for e...

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Main Authors:	Bourguignon, Francois, Ferreira, Francisco H.G., Leite, Phillippe G.
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC: World Bank 2014
Subjects:	ACCOUNT CASH TRANSFER PROGRAMS CASH TRANSFERS CHILD LABOR COUNTERFACTUAL DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECTS DROPOUTS EVALUATION METHODOLOGY EVALUATION METHODS FOOD FOR EDUCATION FOOD POLICY HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD PER CAPITA INCOME HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HOUSEHOLD WELFARE HUMAN CAPITAL INCIDENCE OF POVERTY INEQUALITY MEANS TESTS METHODOLOGY MODELING NUTRITION PARENTAL EDUCATION POLITICAL ECONOMY POOR POOR CHILDREN POOR FAMILIES POOR HOUSEHOLDS POOR PEOPLE POVERTY GAP POVERTY LINE POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY PROFILE POVERTY REDUCTION PROGRAM DESIGNS RURAL RURAL AREA RURAL AREAS SCENARIO SCENARIOS SCHOOL ATTENDANCE SIMULATION SIMULATION MODELS SIMULATIONS SOCIAL ASSISTANCE SOCIAL PROGRAMS TARGETED TRANSFERS TARGETING TECHNIQUES TRANSFER AMOUNTS TRANSFER BENEFITS WORKING CHILDREN
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/05/17742171/conditional-cash-transfers-schooling-child-labor-micro-simulating-brazils-bolsa-escola-program http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17179

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Summary:	A growing number of developing economies are providing cash transfers to poor people that require certain behaviors on their part, such as attending school or regularly visiting health care facilities. A simple ex ante methodology is proposed for evaluating such programs and used to assess the bolsa escola program in Brazil. The results suggest that about 60 percent of poor 10- to 15-year-olds not in school enroll in response to the program. The program reduces the incidence of poverty by only a little more than one percentage point, however, and the Gini coefficient falls just half a point. Results are better for measures more sensitive to the bottom of the distribution, but the effect is never large.

Conditional Cash Transfers, Schooling, and Child Labor : Micro-Simulating Brazil's Bolsa Escola Program

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