Bolsa-Familia is a social welfare program in Brazil. In this program, poor families are given cash payments conditional on their children's school attendance. Suppose you want to con- duct a study on the impact of Bolsa-Familia on future earnings. Your treatment group is children on the program, and your control group is chil- dren who aren't on the program but have similar family backgrounds. What is the problem with this method?

Bolsa-Familia is a social welfare program in Brazil. In this program, poor families are given cash payments conditional on their children's school attendance. Suppose you want to con- duct a study on the impact of Bolsa-Familia on future earnings. Your treatment group is children on the program, and your control group is chil- dren who aren't on the program but have similar family backgrounds. What is the problem with this method?

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