From a behavior analysis perspective, this paper identifies the metacontingencies established by the Programa Bolsa Família legislation that focus on the fulfillment of education and health requirements by its beneficiaries, called conditionalities. The Programa Bolsa Familia is a conditional cash transfer program, analyzed here as an intervention for an inefficient cultural practice. This cultural practice constitutes interlocked contingencies that hinder school attendance and nutrition of poor and extremely poor children, who turn into adults unprepared for the labor market, perpetuating a cycle of poverty throughout generations. Analysis of the Programa Bolsa Família legislation enabled us to find two main types of metacontingencies: 1) one for behavioral change of members of the beneficiary families; and 2) another for managing the education and health conditionalities, from a chain of behaviors emitted by public servants of three government levels–municipal, state, and federal. This analysis described the variables that may have been maintaining the interlocking behavioral contingencies involving the beneficiaries and their behaviors of accessing health and education services, and the interlocking behavioral contingencies involving the public agents that manage the conditionalities. The study concludes that it’s important to consider the influence of other variables, regarding health and education services and labor market, to guarantee selection of a new and more efficient cultural practice and to verify if the theoretical model presented in this study is consistent with reality, by conducting field research or studies with secondary data.

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Bolsa Família 计划受益人的行为：关于实现教育和健康条件的行为分析视角

从行为分析的角度，本文确定了家庭补助计划立法建立的元意外事件，其重点是受益人满足教育和健康要求，称为条件。Programa Bolsa Familia 是一项有条件的现金转移计划，这里被分析为对低效文化实践的干预。这种文化习俗构成了相互关联的突发事件，阻碍了贫困和极端贫困儿童的入学率和营养，他们变成了对劳动力市场毫无准备的成年人，从而使贫困循环代代相传。对 Programa Bolsa Família 立法的分析使我们能够发现两种主要类型的元意外事件：1) 一种是受益家庭成员的行为改变；2）另一个用于管理教育和健康条件，来自三个政府级别（市政、州和联邦）的公务员发出的一系列行为。该分析描述了可能维持涉及受益人及其获得健康和教育服务的行为的互锁行为意外事件，以及涉及管理条件的公共代理的互锁行为意外事件的变量。该研究得出的结论是，重要的是要考虑其他变量的影响，如卫生和教育服务以及劳动力市场，以保证选择一种新的、更有效的文化实践，并验证本研究中提出的理论模型是否与现实一致，通过使用二手数据进行实地研究或研究。