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Family Allowances and Child School Attendance: An Ex-Ante Evaluation of Alternative Schemes in Uruguay

2010; RELX Group (Netherlands); Linguagem: Inglês

10.2139/ssrn.1676395

1556-5068

Verónica Amarante, Rodrigo Arim, Gioia de Melo, Andrea Vigorito,

Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis

Asignaciones Familiares is a child allowances program that was incepted in Uruguay in 1942 and significantly modified in 2008. The program is focused on children aged 0 to 18 and aims at alleviating poverty and promoting school attendance particularly among teen-agers. This paper presents an ex-ante evaluation on the effects of this reform on teenager school attendance, poverty, inequality and adult labour supply.