@article{Soares_Guerreiro Osório_Veras Soares_Medeiros_Zepeda_2009, title={Conditional cash transfers in Brazil, Chile and Mexico: Impacts upon inequality}, url={https://estudioseconomicos.colmex.mx/index.php/economicos/article/view/387}, DOI={10.24201/ee.v0i0.387}, abstractNote={<p>We decompose changes in the Gini coefficient to investigate whether the Conditional Cash Tranfers (CCT) have had an inequality reducing effect in three Latin American countries: Brasil, Mexico and Chile. We conclude that CCT programs helped reducing inequality between the mid-1990s and the mid-2000s. The share of total income represented by the CCTs is very small, less than 1%. But as their targeting is outstanding, the equalising impact of CCTs was responsible for about 21% of the fall in Brazilian and Mexican inequality figures In Chile the effect was responsible for around 15% of the reduction.</p>}, journal={Estudios Económicos de El Colegio de México}, author={Soares, Sergei and Guerreiro Osório, Rafael and Veras Soares, Fábio and Medeiros, Marcelo and Zepeda, Eduardo}, year={2009}, month={Jan.}, pages={207–224} }