Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/240852 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
Texto para Discussão No. 2658
Publisher: 
Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA), Brasília
Abstract (Translated): 
Based on data from the Brazilian National Household Sample Survey (PNAD Contínua/ IBGE 2019), we compare the current benefit model for the Bolsa Família programme (whose main strategy for fighting extreme poverty consists of a top-up benefit) with a microssimulation of an alternative flat-rate benefit model, paid to all extremely poor people and poor children covered by the programme. The total budget is the same. The top-up benefit seems to perform marginally better than the flat-rate benefit, but the difference is not statistically significant. The extreme poverty rate observed in 2019 (measured by the programme's lower eligibility threshold of BRL 89 per capita per month) was of 4.1%, whereas it would have been 4.3% if the programme had a flat-rate benefit. This advantage was also observed in the other FGT poverty measures, again with non-significant results.
Subjects: 
Bolsa Família
extreme poverty
benefit design
top-up benefit
JEL: 
H53
I32
I38
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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