The Long-Term Effects of Conditional Cash Transfers on Child Labor and School Enrollment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5846208 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marcel Peruffo (Graduate Student, Department of Economics Brown University Providence RI 2912), Pedro Cavalcanti Ferreira (0000-0001-9560-8200, Fundação Getulio Vargas) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 2008-2030 |
| Publication date | 2017-05-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economic Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0095-2583 • E-ISSN: 1465-7295 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ecin.12457 |
| OpenAlex | W2282905187 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 13 |
This paper investigates the long-term effects of conditional cash transfers on school attainment and child labor. To this end, we construct a dynamic heterogeneous agent model, calibrate it with Brazilian data, and introduce a policy similar to the Brazilian Bolsa Família . Our results suggest that this type of policy has a very strong impact on educational outcomes, sharply increasing primary school completion. The conditional transfer is also able to reduce the share of working children from 22% to 17%. We then compute the transition to the new steady state and show that the program actually increases child labor over the short run, because the transfer is not enough to completely cover the schooling costs, so children have to work to be able to comply with the program's schooling eligibility requirement. We also evaluate the impacts on poverty, inequality, and welfare. ( JEL O11, I25, J24
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| Unique citing works | 12 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |