Faculty Publications
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Keywords
Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs), Brazil, Poverty Alleviation, Development, Poverty Cycle
Journal/Book/Conference Title
International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences
Volume
7
Issue
1
First Page
79
Last Page
103
Abstract
Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) are innovative poverty intervention programs that have been adapted and adopted in dozens of countries around the world. The effectiveness of the programs in the short-term have been established by a number of studies, but they have only recently been around long enough to begin to observe whether they indeed disrupt the inter-generational poverty cycle as claimed. The expected long-term effects are central to the appeal of CCT programs. This empirical study examines the data to determine whether there is evidence that the long-term effects are as apparent as the short-term effects in one of the original adopters, Brazil. The analysis examines municipal level government data using OLS regression and finds evidence that CCTs raised 8th grade graduation rates and lowered unemployment and birthrates. The conclusion is that, at least in Brazil, CCTs seem to be making headway in changing conditions that often lead to inter-generational poverty cycles.
Department
Department of Political Science
Original Publication Date
3-30-2018
Object Description
1 PDF File
DOI of published version
10.17583/rimcis.2018.3200
Repository
UNI ScholarWorks, Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa
Copyright
©2018 The Author(s)
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Warby, Brian, "The Long-Term Societal Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfers: Bolsa Família a Decade In" (2018). Faculty Publications. 6476.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/facpub/6476
Comments
First published in International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences, v7 n1 published by Hipatia Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17583/rimcis.2018.3200