| Date: | 2001-2003 |
| Description: | Federal conditional cash transfer programme with a focus on education, aimed at ensuring children's attendance at school and promoting their retention in classrooms throughout the school year. This programme succeeded municipal conditional cash transfer programmes (such as those in the Federal District, Campinas, Belo Horizonte, Vitoria, Recife, etc.) and the 1999 state minimum income guarantee programme (PGRM). It ceased to exist in 2003 to become part of the newly created Bolsa Familia programme. It continued to provide support payments until 2009 for those who had not yet migrated to Bolsa Familia. |
Characteristics
| Target population: | Families in extreme poverty with children aged 6 to 15 years. |
| Geographic scale: | National |
| Targeting method: | 1) Direct means testing (means test) 2) Geographic |
| Instrument of selection: | Bolsa Escola Registry (Cadbes) |
| Exit strategies or criteria: | When household loses eligibility |
| Comments: | It still pays cash transfers even though is closed to the incorporation of new participants. |
Institutionality
| Legal framework: | Law n. 10219 |
| Responsible organization(s): | Ministry of Education |
| Source of funding: | Federal Government of Brazil |
1) Transfer Bolsa Escola
| Recipient(s): | Children between the ages of 6 and 15 years |
| Mode of transfer: | Transfer according to family composition (number of children) |
| Periodicity of delivery: | Monthly |
| Recipient of the transfer: | Mother |
| Maximum per household: | Three recipients per household |
| Conditionalities: | Education: minimum school attendance of 85% |
The impact of conditional cash transfer programs on household work decisions in Brazil
| Author: | Ferro, A., and Nicollela, A. |
| Date: | 2007 |
| Publication info: | IZA working paper |
| Link: | See Webpage |
| Topic: | Impact evaluation |
The impact of conditional cash transfer programs on household work decisions in Brazil
| Author: | Ferro, A., Kassouf, A., and Levison, D. |
| Date: | 2010 |
| Publication info: | Working paper of ANPEC |
| Link: | See Webpage |
| Topic: | Impact evaluation |
The impact o f cash transfers on child labor and school attendance in Brazil.
| Author: | Cardoso, E. and Portela, A. |
| Date: | 2004 |
| Publication info: | Working paper No. 04-W07 of Vanderbilt University |
| Link: | See Webpage |
| Topic: | Impact evaluation |
Avaliação do Impacto dos Programas de Bolsa Escola na Incidência de Trabalho Infantil no Brasil.
| Author: | Ferro, A., and Kassouf, A. |
| Date: | 2003 |
| Publication info: | Working paper of ANPEC |
| Link: | See Webpage |
| Topic: | Impact evaluation |
Conditional Cash Transfers, Schooling, and Child Labor: Micro-Simulating Brazil's Bolsa Escola Program
| Author: | Bourguignon, François, Francisco Ferreira and Phillippe Leite |
| Date: | 2003 |
| Publication info: | The World Bank Economic Review, 17 (2), 229-254. [en línea] |
| Link: | See Webpage |
| Topic: | Impact on education / impact on child labor |
The Bolsa Escola Program: Institutional design and management arrangements
| Author: | Bonal, Xavier and Aina Tarabini |
| Date: | 2005 |
| Publication info: | Working paper from the seminar on social policy analysis, Autonomous University of Barcelona |
| Link: | See Webpage |
| Topic: | General information / Evaluation |
Brazil’s Bolsa Escola Program: The Role of Local Governance in Decentralized Implementation
| Author: | de Janvry, Alain, et. al. |
| Date: | 2005 |
| Publication info: | SP Discussión Paper (0542), Washington D.C. Banco Mundial, diciembre [en línea] |
| Link: | See Webpage |
| Topic: | Decentralization |
Evaluating Brazil’s Bolsa Escola Program: Impact on Schooling and Municipal Roles
| Author: | de Janvry, Alain, Federico Finan and Elisabeth Sadoulet |
| Date: | 2006 |
| Publication info: | Universidad de California (Berkeley) |
| Link: | See Webpage |
| Topic: | Impact evaluation on education outcomes |
Bolsa escola: history and evolution
| Author: | Do Nascimento, Elimer and Marcelo Aguiar |
| Date: | 2006 |
| Publication info: | Research papers IIPE, París: UNESCO/IIPE |
| Link: | See Webpage |
| Topic: | General Information / Evaluation |
