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Efeitos do programa bolsa família na fecundidade das beneficiárias

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  • Simões, Patrícia
  • Soares, Ricardo Brito

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We assessed whether the Bolsa Família Program contributes to increase the fertility among the beneficiaries, since the increase in family size, up to a certain limit, leads to an increase in the benefits. We use a count model in which we test and treat the possibility of endogeneity of the policy variable by two different methods (two-stage method in the spirit of Heckman’s models and GMM) and we control for several cofactors obtained from the National DHS (2006). The results show that the PBF didn’t have such effect, at least for the beginning of the program. Rather, the beneficiaries seem to be more inclined to trade quantity for quality than non-beneficiaries eligible for the program.

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  • Simões, Patrícia & Soares, Ricardo Brito, 2012. "Efeitos do programa bolsa família na fecundidade das beneficiárias," Revista Brasileira de Economia - RBE, EPGE Brazilian School of Economics and Finance - FGV EPGE (Brazil), vol. 66(4), December.
    • Handle: RePEc:fgv:epgrbe:v:66:y:2012:i:4:a:3742
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    1. Campoli, Jessica Suárez & Alves Júnior, Paulo Nocera & Rossato, Fabrícia Gladys Fernandes da Silva & Rebelatto, Daisy Aparecida do Nascimento, 2020. "The efficiency of Bolsa Familia Program to advance toward the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): A human development indicator to Brazil," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 71(C).
    2. Superti, Luiz Henrique, 2019. "Effects on Fertility of The Brazilian Cash Transfer Program: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Approach," MPRA Paper 104627, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised Oct 2020.

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