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

Published
2003-05
Journal
World Bank Economic Review 17(2):229-254Metadata
Abstract
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.Citation
“Bourguignon, Francois; Ferreira, Francisco H.G.; Leite, Phillippe G.. 2003. Conditional Cash Transfers, Schooling, and Child Labor : Micro-Simulating Brazil's Bolsa Escola Program. Washington, DC: World Bank. © World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/17179 License: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO.”
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