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Spillovers from conditional cash transfer programs : Bolsa Família and crime in urban Brazil

Chioda, Laura; Mello, Joao M. P. de; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2012

This paper investigates the impact of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs on crime. Making use of a unique dataset … combining detailed school characteristics with time and geo-referenced crime information from the city of São Paulo, Brazil, we … estimate the contemporaneous effect of the Bolsa Família program on crime. We address the endogeneity of CCT coverage by …

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Local labor market conditions and crime : evidence from the Brazilian trade liberalization

Carneiro, Rafael Dix; Soares, Rodrigo Reis; Ulyssea, Gabriel - 2016

This paper estimates the effect of local labor market conditions on crime in a developing country with high crime rates …. Contrary to the previous literature, which has focused exclusively on developed countries with relatively low crime rates, we … large relative increases in crime rates in the medium term, but these effects virtually disappear in the long term. This …

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The effect of job loss and unemployment insurance on crime in Brazil

Britto, Diogo G. C.; Pinotti, Paolo; Sampaio, Breno - 2020

suggest that unemployment benefits covering 3 to 5 months after displacement completely offset potential crime increases upon …

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Too much of a good thing : accelerated growth and crime

Soares, Rodrigo Reis; Souza, Danilo Paula de - 2023

We document that oil-producing areas of Brazil experienced increases in crime during the period of increased economic … growth driven by the 2000s oil boom. This challenges the understanding that the impact of income shocks on crime is driven … to have contributed to the increase in crime. …

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Local electoral incentives and decentralized program performance

De Janvry, Alain; Finan, Frederico S.; Sadoulet, Elisabeth - 2010

This paper analyzes how electoral incentives affected the performance of a major decentralized conditional cash transfer program intended on reducing school dropout rates among children of poor households in Brazil. We show that while this federal program successfully reduced school dropout by 8...

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Avaliação da eficiência dos centros de referência de assistência social no Brasil

da Silva, Ângelo Henrique Lopes; Sawaya Neto, Melchior; … - 2015

Brazilian Welfare Policy, in its basic protection dimension, is implemented by public structures called as Referencial Centers of Social Assistence (Cras), which work at the local level (municipalities), but are organized, coordinated, legislated and co-financed by the federal government. This...

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Capacidades estatais para a implementação de programas de transferência de renda: Os casos de Brasil, Argentina e África do Sul

Bichir, Renata Mirandola - 2015

This research analyzes the principal conditions that allowed the development of national cash transfer programs in the social protection systems of Brazil, Argentina and South Africa. The main focuses are the political and institutional conditions for the emergence and development of these...

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Capacidades estatais no programa bolsa família: O desafio de consolidação do sistema único de assistência social

Coutinho, Diogo R. - 2013

In a slow process marked by authoritarian moments, regressive effects, bureaucratic insulation, centralized arrangements and cronyism, since the 1930s Brazil has been building its Welfare State. In the wake of struggles and political clashes for ensuring rights and reviving democracy, the...

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Distribuição de renda nos anos 2010: Uma década perdida para desigualdade e pobreza

Barbosa, Rogério J.; Soares, Sergei - 2020

In this paper we analyze Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios Contínua (PNAD Contínua) microdata from 2012 to 2018 to document how the mid-decade economic recession reversed the trend of pro-poor growth that dated back to the early 2000s. Since the recession, there was a rise in...

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Rising food prices and household welfare : evidence from Brazil in 2008

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Fruttero, Anna; Leite, … - 2011

Food price inflation in Brazil in the twelve months to June 2008 was 18 percent, while overall inflation was 5.3 percent. This paper uses spatially disaggregated monthly data on consumer prices and two different household surveys to estimate the welfare consequences of these food price...

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