Spillover Effects of a Brazilian Pension Scheme on Labor Force Participation

Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs have proven to be an important way to alleviate poverty in the developing world. In Brazil, much attention has been paid to the Bolsa-Escola and Bolsa-Família programs, which provide the benefits to poor families in order to keep children attaining school and avoiding child labor, among other goals. The BPC program, however, is a pension scheme addressed to disabled people and to the elders, and despite of being carried out in Brazil for more than 10 years, few studies evaluated the effect of this program upon family structure, education, child labor, and other spillover effects.