Income Transfer Policies and Nutritional Condition of Children
An Evaluation of “Bolsa Família”
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16779250 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mônica Viegas Andrade (0000-0002-6821-1598), Flavia Chein (0000-0003-4002-2522), Rafael Perez Ribas (0000-0001-7654-0917, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora), Jaume Puig-Junoy (0000-0003-1695-3108, Universitat Pompeu Fabra) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2014-05-06 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Revista Econômica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1517-1302 • E-ISSN: 1517-1302 |
| Publisher | Pro Reitoria de Pesquisa, Pos Graduacao e Inovacao - UFF (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.22409/economica.15i2.p75 |
| OpenAlex | W1870744008 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 19 |
This paper investigates the impact of the Bolsa Familia program, a conditional cash transfer program focused on Brazilian poor families, on children‘s nutritional status in a context of low monitoring of conditionalities. The analysis is carried out using data from a baseline survey conducted in 2005, the “Bolsa Família” Impact Evaluation Research. The evaluation is made using the Propensity Score Matchingtechnique. Besides considering observational differences between beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries of Bolsa Família Program, our empirical strategy also addresses some concerns about informational issues in order to take into account potential endogeneity of the decision to participate in the Program. Our final results show a positive effect of Bolsa Família Program on children nutritional status only whencontrolling for the informational bias and for those children fulfilling educational requirements; however, this positive impact on nutritional status is restricted to BMIfor-age but does not affect height-for-age
Conditional cash transfer · Demographic economics · Econometrics · Economic growth · Economics · Endogeneity · Geography · Low income · Observational study · Political science · Poverty · Propensity score matching · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Medicine · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology
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| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |