Abstract
IntroductionBrazil’s Bolsa Familia Program (BFP) is the world’s largest conditional cash transfer scheme. We shall use a large cohort of applicants for different social programmes to evaluate the effect of...
Highlights
Brazil’s Bolsa Familia Program (BFP) is the world’s largest conditional cash transfer scheme
►► We use natural experimental approaches to estimate the effect of Bolsa Familia Program that control for both observed and unobserved differences between recipients and non-recipients
Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes have been widely implemented since the 1990s, aiming to reduce poverty among groups largely excluded from previous social policies.[1]
Summary
►► Few previous studies of conditional cash-transfer programmes have investigated impacts on adult health, or on premature death by cardiovascular diseases, using individual-level data on exposures and outcomes. ►► We exploit a nationwide linkage of social policy and health datasets to evaluate the largest conditional cash transfer in the world in one of the most unequal countries. ►► We use natural experimental approaches to estimate the effect of Bolsa Familia Program that control for both observed and unobserved differences between recipients and non-recipients. ►► Limitations associated with the use of routinely collected data include underascertainment of deaths, imperfect measurement of incomes, and a restricted range of covariates. ►► The period of follow-up is limited to 10 years, so may be insufficient to observe long-term impacts, including life course effects of improving socioeconomic conditions in childhood
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