Conditional cash transfers, schooling, and child labor: Micro-simulating Brazil's Bolsa Escola program

World Bank Economic Review

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 229-254

  Bourguignon, François ^a   Ferreira, Francisco H G ^b   Leite, Phillippe G ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD LABOR; EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; LABOR MARKET; POVERTY;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 1342333857     PISSN: 02586770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/wber/lhg018     Document Type: Article

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