Income Transfer Policies and Nutritional Condition of Children: An Evaluation of “Bolsa Família”

Autores

  • Mônica Viegas Andrade UFF
  • Flávia Chein
  • Rafael Perez Ribas
  • Jaume Puig-Junoy

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22409/reuff.v15i2.34866

Resumo

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 Matching
technique. 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 when
controlling 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.

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Publicado

2014-05-06