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Book Synopsis The Impact of Bolsa Família on Schooling by : de Brauw, Alan
Download or read book The Impact of Bolsa Família on Schooling written by de Brauw, Alan and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2015 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We estimate the impact of Bolsa Família on a range of education outcomes, including school participation, grade progression, grade repetition, and dropout rates. Using a large-sample household panel survey from 20052009 collected for this evaluation, we develop a statistically balanced comparison group of eligible nonparticipant households and estimate impacts using propensity-score-weighted regression. We estimate that Bolsa Família increased average school participation among all children age 6 to 17 years by (a weakly significant) 4.5 percent. It had no effect on grade promotion, on average. However, within the subsample of girls, Bolsa Família caused substantial improvements in schooling outcomes, including significant increases in school participation (8.2 percent) and rates of grade progression (10.4 percent). We show that the gains in girls schooling do not derive from catch-up effects, but rather increase girls existing advantage in schooling attainment. In general, impacts are larger among older children, in rural areas, and in the Northeast.
Book Synopsis Com a Barriga Cheia by : Becky Kay Reuse Martins
Download or read book Com a Barriga Cheia written by Becky Kay Reuse Martins and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Contribution of Bolsa Família to the Educational Achievement of Economically Disadvantaged Children in Brazil by : Armando Amorim Simoes
Download or read book The Contribution of Bolsa Família to the Educational Achievement of Economically Disadvantaged Children in Brazil written by Armando Amorim Simoes and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigates effects of a conditional cash transfer programme (CCT) in Brazil - Bolsa Família (BF) - on school outcomes, particularly children's achievements on standardised tests, pass-grade rates, and dropout rates. The educational conditionality of the programme, requiring enrolment in school and minimum school attendance, figures as a major justification for public investment in BF. It is expected that BF will reduce short-term poverty and boost children's human capital, thus inducing long-term socioeconomic improvement. In order to achieve its long-term objective, BF should be able to improve not only enrolment and attendance rates, but also learning outcomes and grade promotion amongst beneficiary children. However, these effects, particularly learning outcomes, have not yet been reported in the literature. The hypothesis investigated in this thesis is that length of time of participation in the programme and per capita cash amounts received by families are key variables in assessing BF's effects on children's educational outcomes. As the programme improves household income, requires a high rate of school attendance, and monitors children's health and nutritional conditions, a positive effect on children's performance should be expected over time. Similarly, the amount of cash paid to families should have an impact on changes induced in the home environment that are beneficial for children's educational outcomes. Empirically, the dissertation combines three national datasets from governmental agencies for the years 2005 and 2007. These data contain information on test scores in Portuguese Language and Mathematics for fourth grade pupils, school context, and BF parameters (intake, time of participation, and cash value), which are used in cross-sectional and panel analyses to test the above hypotheses. The results show that although beneficiaries tend to attend less well-resourced schools, the influence of individual and household characteristics on test scores overshadow that of school resources, suggesting that demand-side interventions might result in gains in children's performances. The cross-sectional analysis at the school level suggests that BF's contribution to school outcomes depends on the length of time of participation and the per capita cash value paid to families. In addition, these two BF parameters have substitute effects, that is, as the per capita cash increases, school performance increases; however, the contribution of time of participation to gains in school performance diminishes and vice-versa. As a sensitive analysis to test the direct effects of length of time of participation and per capita cash on school outcomes, a subsample was used, which includes only schools in which more than 80% of pupils are beneficiaries. Results from this subsample confirm the positive effects of time and cash on school outcomes, although only cash is statistically significant. Furthermore, a school-and-time fixed effects model is estimated using panel data for 2005 and 2007 for the same school outcomes. The results also suggest that improvements in school outcomes are expected over time as a result of exposure to the programme, although this varies across regions. The findings support the idea that improvements in educational opportunities and outcomes for children of low-income families in Brazil require a non-educational policy measure - the reduction of the immediate income poverty - as intended by BF. Nevertheless, there is also an urgent need to address inequalities in standards of education supply and special attention should be given to children whose families are recipients of BF in promoting access to pre-school programmes. Even though educational policies are necessary, they are insufficient to promote human capital amongst the poorest families in Brazil. In this sense, CCTs do not represent an opportunity cost for educational policies. Instead, they are important allies in promoting education access and equity.
Book Synopsis Does Poverty Matter for Education? by : Armando A. Simões
Download or read book Does Poverty Matter for Education? written by Armando A. Simões and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does poverty matter for educational outcomes? If yes, does it mean that increasing family income to fight extreme poverty will benefit children's education? What direct benefits conditional cash transfer programmes (CCT) can bring to the education of the poorest? These are some of the questions that motivated the study now brought to a wider audience in this book. Created in 2004, Bolsa Familia is now, by far, the largest CCT programme in the world reaching 14 million families, 50 million people and costing around 10 billion dollars a year. By transferring monthly cash to poor families conditional on school attendance and health assistance for their children, Bolsa Familia is expected to improve human capital amongst low income families and therefore avoid mass poverty in the long run. However, to achieve its long-term objective Bolsa Familia should improve not only enrolment and attendance rates, but also learning outcomes and grade promotion amongst beneficiary children. Is this happening? This book offers to policymakers, researchers and the general public interested in education and poverty related issues some evidence on why fighting poverty is crucial for educational equity.
Book Synopsis Impact Evaluation of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program by : John Maluccio
Download or read book Impact Evaluation of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program written by John Maluccio and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2005 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2000, the Nicaraguan government implemented a conditional cash transfer program designed to improve the nutritional, health, and educational status of poor households, and thereby to reduce short- and long-term poverty. Based on the Mexican government's successful PROGRESA program, Nicaragua's Red de Proteccion Social (RPS) sought to supplement household income, reduce primary school dropout rates, and increase the health care and nutritional status of children under the age of five. This report represents IFPRI's evaluation of phase I of RPS. It shows that the program was effective in low-income areas and particularly effective when addressing health care and education needs. The report offers the first extensive assessment of a Nicaraguan government antipoverty program.
Book Synopsis The Effects of Conditionality Monitoring on Educational Outcomes by : Luis Henrique Paiva
Download or read book The Effects of Conditionality Monitoring on Educational Outcomes written by Luis Henrique Paiva and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conditional cash transfer programmes have been increasingly adopted by several lowand middle-income countries. Despite this overall acceptance, conditionalities remain under scrutiny regarding their possible independent effects on educational and health indicators. This paper is an ecological study of conditionalities in Brazil's Bolsa Família programme. As programme coverage (taken as a proxy of cash transfers) and monitoring and enforcement of the educational conditionalities (proxy of conditionalities) are not correlated at the municipal level, this study fits a number of different ordinary least square (OLS) and growth-curve models to explain variations in drop-out rates and school progression in basic education in public schools across municipalities. ...
Book Synopsis Impacts of the Bolsa Família Program on Child Labor and School Attendance by : Cacciamali Maria Cristina
Download or read book Impacts of the Bolsa Família Program on Child Labor and School Attendance written by Cacciamali Maria Cristina and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper analyses the impacts of the Bolsa Família Program on the occurrence of child labor and school attendance of children from poor families in Brazil in 2004, according to census and regional areas. A bivariate probit model was used to estimate the statistical tests. The results corroborate the efficiency of the Bolsa Família to increase the school attendance of children, however, the Program increases the likelihood of occurrence of child labor. Moreover, children of poor households in rural areas have worse conditions than those of urban areas, demanding specific actions to them.
Book Synopsis Achieving World-Class Education in Brazil by : Barbara Bruns
Download or read book Achieving World-Class Education in Brazil written by Barbara Bruns and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An evaluation of Brazil's educational policies and the advances in basic education over the past 15 years as well as recommendations for future advances.
Book Synopsis The (positive) Effect of Macroeconomic Crises on the Schooling and Employment Decisions of Children in a Middle-income Country by : Norbert Rüdiger Schady
Download or read book The (positive) Effect of Macroeconomic Crises on the Schooling and Employment Decisions of Children in a Middle-income Country written by Norbert Rüdiger Schady and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2002 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under some conditions macroeconomic crises can have a positive effect on the accumulation of human capital because they reduce the opportunity cost of schooling. This has profound implications for the design of appropriate social protection policies.
Book Synopsis A Report on Shortchanging Children by : William L. Taylor
Download or read book A Report on Shortchanging Children written by William L. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bolsa Familia and Its Effects on Poverty, Work Incentives, and Household Organization by : Elley Symmes
Download or read book Bolsa Familia and Its Effects on Poverty, Work Incentives, and Household Organization written by Elley Symmes and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Essays on Development and Behavior Economics: An Impact Evaluation of the "Bolsa Família" - Conditional Cash Transfer on Education and the Effect of Leadership Identity on Group Cooperation and Elite Capture by : Elke Schaffland
Download or read book Essays on Development and Behavior Economics: An Impact Evaluation of the "Bolsa Família" - Conditional Cash Transfer on Education and the Effect of Leadership Identity on Group Cooperation and Elite Capture written by Elke Schaffland and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dissertation at hand is divided into three chapters. Chapter 1 presents an impact evaluation of a widely spread conditional cash transfer in Brazil called Bolsa Família. We analyze the impacts of the program on two educational outcomes: enrollment and attendance. In our analysis we consider the heterogeneous effects of the program. Chapter 2 and 3 study the influence of leaders identity on the group dynamics. Chapter 2 focuses on the effect of leaders identity on cooperation while Chapter 3 studies the dynamics of embezzlement or what we call elite capture. Chapter 1 conducts an imp...
Book Synopsis Sustainable Development by : Sally Sargeant-Hu
Download or read book Sustainable Development written by Sally Sargeant-Hu and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This thesis investigates how the Brazilian conditional cash transfer program, Bolsa Família, contributes to sustainable development through education. Using panel analysis of high school test scores for over 5,000 municipalities from 2004 to 2014, I discuss the impacts that Bolsa Família is having upon sustainable development. In light of the UNs new Sustainable Development Goals, actionable knowledge of the sustainability of human development through Bolsa Família is needed to assess how viable cash conditional transfer programs are as an innovative policy option around the world. My results conclude that Família is contributing to sustainable human development and this thesis demonstrates that high quality municipal-level management is essential for the long-term effectiveness of the cash conditional transfer program."--Boise State University ScholarWorks.
Book Synopsis The Role of Bolsa Familia in the Labour/education Problematic for Children in Brazil by : Allison J. Baldwin
Download or read book The Role of Bolsa Familia in the Labour/education Problematic for Children in Brazil written by Allison J. Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Paying the Poor by : Clay William Giese
Download or read book Paying the Poor written by Clay William Giese and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABSTRACT:This thesis examines Bolsa Família and its effects on child mortality in Brazil. Bolsa Família is the Brazilian government\U+201f\s premiere poverty reduction program and it is part of a relatively new family of poverty alleviation programs known as conditional cash transfer programs. The basic premise of the Bolsa Família program is that the government gives poor families a small sum of money monthly if the family complies with all mandated requirements which include both health and educational requirements. Theoretically, if families are meeting the set health requirements and receiving a small additional monthly salary, we would expect to see a decrease in child mortality. My research hypothesis is that, controlling for several socio-economic factors such as place of residence, region, age, ethnicity, literacy, years of school completed, per capita income and running water in the house, participants in the Bolsa Família program will be less likely to have a child die than non-program participants. Results of the analysis are conflicting at best and do not offer a clear picture of the program effects. The majority of the results were not statistically significant. However, when separating the results by the region of the respondent (between the High-Mortality region of the North and the Northeast and the Low-Mortality region of the Southeast, South and Central-West) we observe the program participation does not reduce child mortality in the High-Mortality region, but it does reduce child mortality in the Low-Mortality region. This suggests that a better developed healthcare infrastructure (in the Low-Mortality region as compared to the High-Mortality region) may facilitate the program in reducing child mortality.
Book Synopsis Education and Its Poverty-reducing Effects by : Dorte Verner
Download or read book Education and Its Poverty-reducing Effects written by Dorte Verner and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Basic Education and Public Policies Assessment in the Brazilian Northeastern Region by : Frederico A. G. de Alencar
Download or read book Basic Education and Public Policies Assessment in the Brazilian Northeastern Region written by Frederico A. G. de Alencar and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
