The long term effects of Bolsa Família on child labour and school enrollment

• Autor(a) principal: Peruffo, Marcel Cortes
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional do FGV (FGV Repositório Digital)
• Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/10438/14083
• topic: Macroeconomics; Development; Growth; Conditional Cash Transfers; Education; Child Labour; Macroeconomia; Desenvolvimento; Crescimento; Transferência condicional de renda; Educação; Trabalho infantil; Economia; Macroeconomia; Programa Bolsa Família (Brasil); Avaliação de pesquisa (Programas de ação social); Programas de sustentação de renda; Transferências de recursos financeiros governamentais; Menores - Emprego; Educação

In this paper we study the e ects of conditional cash transfers in school enrolment and tackling child labour. We develop a dynamic heterogeneous agent general equilibrium model, where households face a set of tradeo s while allocating their children's time in leisure activities, schooling and working. We calibrate the model using data from the Brazilian survey PNAD in order to quantify the e ects of a conditional transfer. We then evaluate the results of a policy experiment that implements a conditional cash transfer scheme similar to the Brazilian Bolsa Familia. Our results suggest that the program, in the long term, is able to substantially increase school registration and reduce child labour and poverty. In addition, we nd out that a progressive conditional cash transfer results in even more bene ts.