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

Bourguignon, Francois ; Ferreira, Francisco H.G. ; Leite, Phillippe G.

Washington, DC:World Bank

关键词: ACCOUNT;    CASH TRANSFER PROGRAMS;    CASH TRANSFERS;    CHILD LABOR;    COUNTERFACTUAL;   

DOI  :  10.1093/wber/lhg018
RP-ID  :  77407

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

A growing number of developing economiesare providing cash transfers to poor people that requirecertain behaviors on their part, such as attending school orregularly visiting health care facilities. A simple ex antemethodology is proposed for evaluating such programs andused to assess the bolsa escola program in Brazil. Theresults suggest that about 60 percent of poor 10- to15-year-olds not in school enroll in response to theprogram. The program reduces the incidence of poverty byonly a little more than one percentage point, however, andthe Gini coefficient falls just half a point. Results arebetter for measures more sensitive to the bottom of thedistribution, but the effect is never large.