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.
Bibliographic Details
| Main Authors: |
Bourguignon, Francois,
Ferreira, Francisco H.G.,
Leite, Phillippe G. |
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| Format: | Journal Article
biblioteca
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| Language: | English
en_US |
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| Published: |
Washington, DC: World Bank
2003-05
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| 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, |
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/05/17742171/conditional-cash-transfers-schooling-child-labor-micro-simulating-brazils-bolsa-escola-program
https://hdl.handle.net/10986/17179
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