TY - JOUR
T1 - Conditional cash transfers, schooling, and child labor
T2 - Micro-simulating Brazil's Bolsa Escola program
AU - Bourguignon, François
AU - Ferreira, Francisco H.G.
AU - Leite, Phillippe G.
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1093/wber/lhg018
DO - 10.1093/wber/lhg018
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:1342333857
SN - 0258-6770
VL - 17
SP - 229
EP - 254
JO - World Bank Economic Review
JF - World Bank Economic Review
IS - 2
ER -