Impact Evaluation of the Brazilian Social Programs on Family Welfare Key-words: impact evaluation; cash transfer; public policy; labor supply; child labor; school attendance. This study uses an impact evaluation methodology to analyze the non-contributory pension program BPC on family welfare....

This study is an attempt to measure the effects of entering the Brazilian labor market at an early age on wages earned as an adult. In a previous study using a pooled data cross section (1988 and 1996), the conclusion was reached that the effect of entering the labor market at an early age is...

We analyze the impact of child labor on school achievement using Brazilian school achievement test data from the 2003 Sistema Nacional de Avaliação da Educação Básica (SAEB). We control for the endogeneity of child labor using instrumental variable techniques, where the instrumental...