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The Impact of the Bolsa Escola/Familia Conditional Cash Transfer Program on Enrollment, Grade Promotion and Drop out Rates in Brazil
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Glewwe, Paul Kassouf, Ana Lúcia |
| Copyright Year | 2008 |
| Abstract | Program on Enrollment, Grade Promotion and Drop out Rates in Brazil Paul Glewwe* & Ana Lucia Kassouf ** Abstract This paper examines the impact of Brazil's Bolsa Escola (later renamed Bolsa Familia) program on children's progress in school in Brazil. The Bolsa program, which started in the 1990s and expanded rapidly in 2001 and 2002, provides monthly cash payments to poor households if their children (between the ages of 6 and 15) are enrolled in school. Using eight years of school census data (from 1998 to 2005), our estimation method compares changes in enrollment, grade advancement and dropout rates across public schools that adopted the Bolsa program in different years. We estimate that the Bolsa program increased school enrollment in grades 1-4 by about 2.8% in the initial years and by about 5.5% in the long run (after three years). We also estimate that the program reduced the drop out rate for children in grades 1-4 by about 0.3 percentage points in the first year and by about 0.55 percentage points in the long run (after two years), and increased the grade promotion rate by about 0.5 percentage points after one year and by about 1 percentage point in the long run (after two years). Similar results are found for children in grades 5-8. Since only about 43% of Brazilian children are eligible to participate in the program, the impacts of the Bolsa program on these education outcomes for the target population (poor families) is arguably at least twice as high as these estimated impacts for the population as a whole. Key-words: impact evaluation, Bolsa Familia program, primary school |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.anpec.org.br/encontro2008/artigos/200807211140170-.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
