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Social Programs and Formal Employment: Evidence from the Brazilian Bolsa Família Program

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  • Anna Fruttero
  • Alexandre Ribeiro Leichsenring
  • Luis Henrique Paiva

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Employment is key to combating poverty. Thus, detractors of social assistance programs argue that they create disincentives to work. While there is substantial evidence showing limited effects of these programs on overall labor supply, the jury is still out with respect to their impact on formal employment. This paper exploits an unannounced change in the eligibility rule of the Bolsa Familia program in Brazil, one of the oldest and largest conditional cash transfers in the world, to identify the causal impact of the program on formal employment, combining three large administrative datasets. This paper finds that the program has a positive effect on entry in formal labor market, especially for younger cohorts.

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  • Anna Fruttero & Alexandre Ribeiro Leichsenring & Luis Henrique Paiva, 2020. "Social Programs and Formal Employment: Evidence from the Brazilian Bolsa Família Program," IMF Working Papers 2020/099, International Monetary Fund.
    • Handle: RePEc:imf:imfwpa:2020/099
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    1. Stampini, Marco & Medellín, Nadin & Ibarrarán, Pablo, 2023. "Cash Transfers, Poverty, and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean," IDB Publications (Working Papers) 13191, Inter-American Development Bank.
    2. Herrera, Gabriel Paes & Constantino, Michel & Su, Jen-Je & Naranpanawa, Athula, 2023. "The use of ICTs and income distribution in Brazil: A machine learning explanation using SHAP values," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 47(8).

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