This text attempts to estimate the impacts of Bolsa Família upon grade repetition using matched data from the Single Registry, the Attendance Project and the annual school censuses. Three approaches are used: i) comparison of results for poor children in the Single Registry with and without the...

This paper investigates the main determinants of grade repetition using the Brazilian school census between 2007 and 2010. For the first time such a study is conducted with all students in a panel. We begin with a brief analysis of attrition in the school census and then estimate logistic...

This text attempts to estimate the impacts of the Programa Bolsa Família on grade repetition, using matched data from the Single Registry (Cadastro Único, or CadÚnico), the Attendance Project and annual School Census. The authors use three approaches: i) comparing the results for poor...

This text describes in detail how to simulate the poverty impacts of changes in the entitlement rules and benefit values of the Bolsa Família Program. This simulation is especially challenging due to: i) the absence of a specific question on Bolsa Família income in the PNAD household survey...

This text investigates, for 2004 and 2009, the characteristics and living conditions of four demographic categories defined by household per capita income values. These are the extreme poor (those whose per capita incomes were less than R$ 67 in 2009), the poor (between R$ 67 and R$ 134), the...

Arguments against means-tested cash transfers for the poor based upon labor supply appear both in the specialized literature and in the media. It is possible to make a microeconomic argument pointing to a reduction in labor supply on the part of beneficiaries of a targeted cash transfer. This...

This text attempts to estimate the impacts of Bolsa Família upon grade repetition using matched data from the Single Registry, the Attendance Project and the annual school censuses. Three approaches are used: i) comparison of results for poor children in the Single Registry with and without the...

Este trabalho tenciona estimar o impacto do Programa Bolsa Família (PBF) sobre a repetência escolar usando dados do Cadastro Único (CadÚnico), Projeto Frequência e censos da educação básica. Três abordagens foram utilizadas: i) comparação de crianças com e sem benefício, inscritas...

Este trabalho apresenta os principais determinantes da repetência usando dados dos Censos Escolares entre 2007 e 2010. Pela primeira vez, este tipo de estudo é realizado com análise em painel que acompanha todos os alunos ao longo do tempo. Iniciou-se o trabalho com breve descrição a...

Este trabalho investiga, para os anos 2004 e 2009, as características e as condições de vida dos extremamente pobres (famílias de renda domiciliar per capita menor que R$ 67 em 2009), dos pobres (renda entre R$ 67 e R$ 134), dos vulneráveis à pobreza (R$ 134 a $ 465) e dos não pobres...