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...

The article reviews studies on family demography in Brazil published in the last three decades. Following a chronological order the article shows that the studies about families in Brazil were oriented by the main issues in general demography. During the decades of 1970 and 1980 these were...

Este artigo descreve detalhadamente como simular os impactos sobre a pobreza de mudanças nas regras de elegibilidade e nos valores do Programa Bolsa Família (PBF). Isto é desafio especialmente delicado na medida em que não existe pergunta específica na Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de...