“…On the educational front, a systematic review found that, regardless of the unit of analysis, whether student or school, the Brazilian Income Transfer Program was able to produce positive results, especially for school attendance and dropout rates in the pre-pandemic context 20 . Municipal economies benefited from the Brazilian Income Transfer Program, considering the association found between benefits paid by the program and the number of people with formal occupation and between benefits and total work income in Brazilian cities 21 . There are positive impacts on the empowerment of women, who today represent more than 80% of the beneficiaries, observed on different levels, namely on the individual, family, and community levels 22 .…”