An evaluation of the impact of the educational conditions of Brazil's Bolsa Famlia Program (2005 and 2009) Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • This paper analyzes the impact of the educational conditions of Brazil's Bolsa Famlia Program on the dropout rates of children benefiting fromthe program. The main hypothesis is that children living in a household that receives the benefit have a lower chance of dropping out of school. Data are from the 2005 and 2009 Impact Evaluation of the Bolsa Famlia Program (AIBF), collected by the Ministry of Social Development and Combating Famine (MDS), Brazil. Logisticmodels estimated the chance that children would drop out of school in 2005 and 2009, for three different household income thresholds, taking into account characteristics related to the household, mother, and child. Children who lived in households benefiting from Bolsa Famlia had a significantly lower chance of dropping out in 2005. Data for 2009 were not statistically significant, although results pointed to a decrease in dropout rates, due to the impact of Bolsa Famlia.

published proceedings

  • Dados

altmetric score

  • 3.25

author list (cited authors)

  • de Lima Amaral, E. F., & do Prado Monteiro, V.

citation count

  • 9

complete list of authors

  • de Lima Amaral, Ernesto Friedrich||do Prado Monteiro, Vinícius

publication date

  • January 2013