Impacts of Bolsa Família Programme on income and working offer of the poor famílies: an approach using the treatment of quantile effect

Autores/as

  • Daniella Medeiros Cavalcanti Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
  • Edward Martins Costa Universidade Federal do Ceará
  • Jorge Luiz Mariano da Silva Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
  • Raquel Menezes Bezerra Sampaio Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/1413-8050/ea130092

Palabras clave:

Quantile treatment effects, Conditional cash transfer programs, Bolsa Família Program

Resumen

The impact of Bolsa Família Program (BFP) along with the distributionofworkincomeandworkday ofBrazilianpoorfamilieswasevaluated using microdata from the 2010 Sample Census of IBGE and the Quantile Treatment Effect estimator proposed by Firpo (2007). Both treatment and control groups were based on families eligible to the Program, but only familiesthat actuallyreceivedthebenefitswereincludedinthetreatment group. Families registered as PBF beneficiaries, when compared to non beneficiary families: a) may work more, less or the same, depending on the quantile of the distribution; and, b) receive less for the work done at all quantiles of the distribution

Descargas

Los datos de descarga aún no están disponibles.

Descargas

Publicado

2016-06-01

Número

Vol. 20 Núm. 2 (2016)

Sección

Artículos

Cómo citar

Cavalcanti, D. M., Costa, E. M., Silva, J. L. M. da, & Sampaio, R. M. B. (2016). Impacts of Bolsa Família Programme on income and working offer of the poor famílies: an approach using the treatment of quantile effect. Economia Aplicada, 20(2), 173-201. https://doi.org/10.11606/1413-8050/ea130092