Conditional Cash Transfers, Schooling, and Child Labor: Micro-Simulating Brazil's Bolsa Escola Program |
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| Authors: | Bourguignon Francois; Ferreira Francisco H G; Leite Phillippe G |
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| Institution: | François Bourguignon is Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank. His e-mail address is fbourguignon{at}worldbank.org. Francisco H. G. Ferreira is with the Development Research Group, the World Bank, and PUC-Rio. His e-mail address is fferreira{at}worldbank.org. Philippe G. Leite is with DELTA and the World Bank. His e-mail address is pleite{at}worldbank.org. |
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| Abstract: | A growing number of developing economies are providing cashtransfers to poor people that require certain behaviors on theirpart, such as attending school or regularly visiting healthcare facilities. A simple ex ante methodology is proposed forevaluating such programs and used to assess the Bolsa Escolaprogram in Brazil. The results suggest that about 60 percentof poor 10- to 15-year-olds not in school enroll in responseto the program. The program reduces the incidence of povertyby only a little more than one percentage point, however, andthe Gini coefficient falls just half a point. Results are betterfor measures more sensitive to the bottom of the distribution,but the effect is never large. |
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