Social Security and Rural Poverty in Brazil

Juliano J. Assunção and Flávia Chein
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Flávia Chein Feres

Brazilian Review of Econometrics, 2009, vol. 29, issue 2

Abstract: This paper investigates the effectiveness of the social security system as a rural antipoverty policy. The source of econometric identification is a Brazilian legislative change implemented in 1991 that reduced the minimum eligibility age, increased the benefits, and extended the participation to non-head of the household members. Our findings indicate that the reform has reduced the incidence of poverty by 40% in eligible households.

Date: 2009
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