The long-term effects of conditional cash transfers on child labor and school enrollment


Autoria(s): Ferreira, Pedro Cavalcanti; Peruffo, Marcel Cortes
Data(s)

14/08/2015

14/08/2015

11/08/2015

Resumo

This paper investigates the long-term e ects of conditional cash transfers on school attainment and child labor. To this end, we construct a dynamic heterogeneous agent model, calibrate it with Brazilian data, and introduce a policy similar to the Brazilian Bolsa Fam lia. Our results suggest that this type of policy has a very strong impact on educational outcomes, sharply increasing primary school completion. The conditional transfer is also able to reduce the share of working children from 22% to 17%. We then compute the transition to the new steady state and show that the program actually increases child labor over the short run, because the transfer is not enough to completely cover the schooling costs, so children have to work to be able to comply with the program's schooling eligibility requirement. We also evaluate the impacts on poverty, inequality, and welfare.

Identificador

0104-8910

http://hdl.handle.net/10438/13910

Idioma(s)

en_US

Publicador

Fundação Getulio Vargas. Escola de Pós-graduação em Economia

Relação

Ensaios Econômicos;769

Palavras-Chave #Bolsa Família #Economia
Tipo

Working Paper