Do CCTs create conditions to thrive? Bolsa Família and social mobility in Brazil

Diogo G.C. Britto, Alexandre Fonseca, Paolo Pinotti, Breno Sampaio and Lucas Warwar

No wp-2025-96, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) are widely used as a poverty reduction policy. While a large stream of literature has evaluated their short-term impacts, we know far less about their long-term effects. This paper investigates the long-term, intergenerational effects of one of the largest CCT in the world: Brazil's Programa Bolsa Família (PBF).

Keywords: Cash transfers; Poverty; Social mobility; Long-run effects; Brazil (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dev and nep-lam
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.wider.unu.edu/sites/default/files/Publ ... -mobility-Brazil.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:unu:wpaper:wp-2025-96

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Siméon Rapin ().