Welfare Stereotypes and Conditional Cash Transfer Programmes: Evidence from Brazil’s Bolsa Família

The impact of Brazil’s Bolsa Família conditional cash transfer program on children’s health care utilization and health outcomes

BACKGROUND Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs provide poor families with cash conditional on investments in health and education. Brazil's Bolsa Família program began in 2003 and is currently the largest CCT program in the world. This community-based study examines the impact of Bolsa Família on child health in a slum community in a large urban center. METHODS In 2010, detailed househol...

Conditional cash transfer programmes and gender vulnerabilities in Latin America -

Evaluating the Impact of Brazil’s Bolsa Família: Cash Transfer Programmes in Comparative Perspective

allege that it has a negative impact on labour force participation. However, the participation rate of [beneficiary] adults was, in fact, 2.6 percentage points higher, and 4.3 percentage points higher for women." The text and data in this publication may be reproduced as long as the source is cited. Reproductions for commercial purposes are forbidden. The International Poverty Centre's Evaluati...

Welfare Analysis of Transfer Programs with Jumps in Reported Income: Evidence from the Brazilian Bolsa Família∗

Transfer programs based on income often generate non-convex kinks in budget sets, particularly in their phase-out regions. In such settings, optimizing agents may respond to changes in the schedule by “jumping” from one bracket of a tax and transfer schedule to another, a behavior that is ruled out by the widely used “first-order” approach in optimal tax theory. This paper presents evidence tha...

Income transfer policies and the impacts on the immunization of children: the Bolsa Família Program.

This paper investigates the impact of the Bolsa Família Program on the immunization of children from 0 to 6 years of age in Brazil and its regions. The Bolsa Família program is a conditional cash transfer program. One of its conditionalities is the compliance of children with the immunization schedule ordered by the Ministry of Health. The evaluation was performed using the Propensity Score Mat...