Bolsa Família Program and Schooling: A Panel Data Approach

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https://doi.org/10.17058/redes.v24i1.11692

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Public policies. Education. Bolsa Família Program.

Abstract

This article aims at evaluating, and in what way, the Bolsa Família Program (PBF) contributed to improving the indicators of early childhood education and basic education in the Brazilian States. With the estimation of regression models with data in Panel for period from 2005 to 2014 it is expected to verify if the resources of the PBF were able to influence the behavior of the educational indicators in Brazilian units. Therefore, it is intended enhance the impact of the PBF in promoting a more inclusive and better quality education. To awaken states to the need to create mechanisms that favor the effectiveness of social policies carried out by the Federal Government. The results of this article reveal that the education situation is improving in Brazil as a whole. But in some states this occurs slowly and it turns out that it takes several years to reach a less unequal situation in education between the Federative Units.

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Patrícia Verônica Pinheiro Sales Lima, Universidade Federal do Ceará

Doutora em Economia e Professora do Programa de Pós-graduação em Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente (PRODEMA) da Universidade Federal do Ceará – UFC.

Joyciane Coelho Vasconcelos, Universidade Federal do Ceará

Doutoranda em Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente- PRODEMA, Mestre em Economia Rural e Graduada em Ciências Econômicas pela Universidade Federal do Ceará

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Published

2019-01-03

How to Cite

Lima, P. V. P. S., & Vasconcelos, J. C. (2019). Bolsa Família Program and Schooling: A Panel Data Approach. Redes , 24(1), 335-355. https://doi.org/10.17058/redes.v24i1.11692

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Vol. 24 No. 1 (2019): Mercados Institucionais: reconectando a produção ao consumo

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