Políticas públicas podem resolver o problema das crianças de rua ? uma avaliação dos resultados do programa criança fora da rua dentro da escola

Abstract

It is usual to observe children and teenagers in the streets working, ask for alms, or starting up in the practice of violation acts. In most of the cases the families without conditions to maintain their children stimulate their attempts to search for survival in the streets. In order to reduce the short term incentives for these children to stay on the streets and to stimulate their studies, the government of the State of Ceará had implanted the program “Child out of the streets and inside school”. From the database supplied by the Program, it was estimated the probability of relapsing of 8.973 children living on the streets. The permanence of the children in the streets can be defined in terms of a dichotomic variable. Therefore, the relapsing probability can be estimated by a probit model. However, the variable indicating the participation in the program is an endogenous binary variable. A consistent way of estimating the Program’s effects is to use a two-stage procedure. At the first stage it is estimated the participation probability. And at the second stage it is estimated the relapsing probability. At the relapsing analysis it will be considered the age and sex of the child, and the approach time, besides the estimated participation probability and familiar background variables.