Cireno et al. (2013) compare the school performance and progression of recipients and non-recipients of the Programa Bolsa Família (PBF) using administrative data obtained from the Ministry of Education (MEC), specifically the Sistema Presença, which monitors the school attendance of PBF...

Cireno et al. (2013) compara o desempenho e o percurso escolar de beneficiários e não beneficiários do Programa Bolsa Família (PBF), usando dados administrativos do Ministério da Educação (MEC) do Sistema Presença, que monitora a frequência escolar de beneficiários do Bolsa Família, e...

Condicionalidades, Desempeño y Avance Escolar de los Beneficiarios del Programa Bolsa Familia

Conditionalities, School Performance and Progression of Bolsa Família Programme Recipients

Conditionnalités, résultats scolaires et progression des bénéficiaires du programme Bolsa Familia

Economic growth has been sustained for many years pre-crisis in the region, but this has not resulted in the creation of an adequate number of jobs and has succeeded, at best, in generating low-quality, informal jobs. The report addresses one margin of exclusion: informal employment and the...

Informality, measured as the share of the employed who do not have access to social security, is high in Lebanon and the Syrian Arab Republic. This paper uses new data from the 2010 Lebanon and Syria matched employer-employee surveys, which include modules that directly test for ability (Raven's...

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