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Focalização e Cobertura do Programa Bolsa-Família: Qual o Significado dos 11 Milhões de Famílias?

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Sergei Soares
Rafael Perez Ribas
Fábio Veras Soares

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Em 2006, o Programa Bolsa Família (PBF) atingiu a sua plena expansão, pretendendo cobrir 11 milhões de famílias, que era a meta de cobertura previamente estabelecida e foi mantida até o ano de 2009. Este trabalho visa avaliar se o aumento na cobertura do programa provocou uma deterioração na sua focalização/ progressividade e se esta meta de fato leva à cobertura completa do público-alvo do PBF. Nossos resultados demonstram que o aumento da cobertura foi acompanhado por uma pequena redução na progressividade da transferência. Contudo, não encontramos evidência de que a expansão do programa nas unidades da federação em si causou piora na focalização. Além disso, a meta de 11 milhões não cobre todo o público-alvo devido aos inevitáveis erros de focalização e ao tamanho do programa. Levando em conta esses erros, estimamos que, para cobrir toda ou quase toda a população-alvo, o programa deveria expandir-se até alcançar 15 milhões de benefícios. Mostramos, ainda, que parte do erro de inclusão observado no programa pode ser explicada pela volatilidade da renda das famílias mais pobres. Isso faz com que o público-alvo real do PBF (aquele que está ou estará abaixo da linha de R$ 120) seja consideravelmente maior que o que seria calculado por meio de uma estimação transversal da distribuição de renda em um dado momento. In 2006, the Bolsa Família Program completed its expansion, expecting to cover 11 million beneficiary families. The objective of this article is to evaluate whether this implied in deterioration in the program’s efficient targeting and whether the target of 11 million families in fact covers the entirety of Bolsa Família’s eligible target population. Our results are twofold. First, the increase in the coverage was followed by a slightly fall in the targeting. However, we do not find evidences that the coverage increase caused a worse targeting by itself. In addition, that coverage target is insufficient to cover the eligible population due to targeting errors and the size of the program. Taking into consideration the inevitable targeting errors, we estimate that the program should expand up to 15 millions of beneficiary families. Additionally, we show that a considerable part of the so-called inclusion error may be explained by the income volatility of poor families that makes the real target population of Bolsa Família (those families that are or soon will be below R$ 120 per capita) considerably larger that that calculated using a cross-section estimate of the income distribution in a given moment.

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Paper provided by Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada - IPEA in its series Discussion Papers with number 1396.

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