The Impact of the Expansion of the Bolsa Família Program on the Time Allocation of Youths and Their Parents

This paper evaluates the impact of the expansion of the Bolsa Família program to families with youths aged 16 to 17 years on the time allocation of youths and on the labor supply of their parents. A differences-in-differences intention to treat estimator was used to compare poor households with 16-y...

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Main Authors: Lia Chitolina, Miguel Nathan Foguel, Naercio Aquino Menezes-Filho
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Fundação Getúlio Vargas 2016-06-01
Series:Revista Brasileira de Economia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-71402016000200183&lng=en&tlng=en