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Spillovers from Conditional Cash Transfer Programs : Bolsa Família and Crime in Urban Brazil

Chioda, Laura - 2014

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 Electoral Incentives and Decentralized Program Performance

de Janvry, Alain - 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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Learning About the Enforcement of Conditional Welfare Programs : Evidence from Brazil

Brollo, Fernanda - 2017

We study the implementation of Bolsa Familia, a program that conditions cash transfers to poor families on children's school attendance. Using unique administrative data, we analyze how beneficiaries respond to the enforcement of conditionality. Making use of random variation in the day on which...

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Rising Food Prices and Household Welfare : Evidence from Brazil in 2008

Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2015

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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Health and the Evolution of Welfare Across Brazilian Municipalities

Soares, Rodrigo R. - 2021

This paper describes the pattern of reductions in mortality across Brazilian municipalities between 1970 and 2000, and analyzes its causes and consequences. It shows that, as in the international context, the relationship between income and life expectancy has shifted consistently in the recent...

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Unpacking Neighborhood Effects : Experimental Evidence from a Large-Scale Housing Program in Brazil

Belchior, Carlos; Gonzaga, Gustavo; Ulyssea, Gabriel - 2023

. Network quality, amenities and crime play a very limited role, while labor market access explains 82-93% of the observed …

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