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 |
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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.
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