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Impacto do Programa Bolsa Família sobre a Frequência Escolar: o caso da agricultura familiar no Nordeste do Brasil

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  • Melo, Raul da Mota Silveira
  • Duarte, Gisléia Benini

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The main proposal of this study was to evaluate the impact of the Bolsa Família conditioned public cash transfer program on the school presence among the children and adolescents from five to 14 years, in the Brazilian states of Pernambuco, Ceará, Sergipe and Paraíba. The work uses both primary and secondary data (PNAD, 2005) to build two different control groups used for propensity score estimative matching with children from families that received income from the federal program. For all studied groups the impact of the Bolsa Família was positive, in other words, the results indicate that the is difference between gender, with the program being effective for girls, but not for boys. This probably is related to the gender difference in the opportunity cost of human capital investment in Brazil rural northeast.

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  • Melo, Raul da Mota Silveira & Duarte, Gisléia Benini, 2010. "Impacto do Programa Bolsa Família sobre a Frequência Escolar: o caso da agricultura familiar no Nordeste do Brasil," Revista de Economia e Sociologia Rural (RESR), Sociedade Brasileira de Economia e Sociologia Rural, vol. 48(3), January.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:revi24:341668
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.341668
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    Farm Management; Labor and Human Capital;

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