Conditional cash transfers, schooling and child labor : micro-simulating bolsa escola


Autoria(s): Ferreira, Francisco H. G.
Data(s)

19/11/2014

19/11/2014

21/08/2003

Resumo

Cash transfers targeted to poor people, but conditional on some behavior on their part, such as school attendance or regular visits to health care facilities, are being adopted in a growing number of developing countries. Even where ex-post impact evaluations have been conducted, a number of policy-relevant counterfactual questions have remained unanswered. These are questions about the potential impact of changes in program design, such as benefit levels or the choice of the means-test, on both the current welfare and the behavioral response of household members. This paper proposes a method to simulate the effects of those alternative program designs on welfare and behavior, based on microeconometrically estimated models of household behavior. In an application to Brazil’s recently introduced federal Bolsa Escola program, we find a surprisingly strong effect of the conditionality on school attendance, but a muted impact of the transfers on the reduction of current poverty and inequality levels.

Identificador

http://hdl.handle.net/10438/12505

Idioma(s)

en_US

Publicador

Escola de Pós-Graduação em Economia da FGV

Relação

Seminários de pesquisa econômica da EPGE

Direitos

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Palavras-Chave #Conditional Transfers #Demand for schooling #Child Labor #Programa Bolsa Familiar para a Educação (Brasil) #Educação e Estado - Brasil #Menores - Emprego #Evasão escolar
Tipo

Working Paper