PROGRESA and its impacts on the welfare of rural households in Mexico

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Research report / International Food Policy Research Institute. - Washington, DC : IFPRI, ISSN 0886-7372, ZDB-ID 741342-7. - Vol. 139

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PROGRESA and its impacts on the welfare of rural households in Mexico -- Executive summary -- Background and program description -- Description of the educational benefits and program requirements -- Description of the health and nutrition component -- Primary health care services -- Nutrition and health education -- Supply of health services -- Nutritional supplement -- PROGRESA and benefits from other programs -- Size of monetary transfers received by PROGRESA beneficiary households -- Scope of evaluation -- PROGRESA seen through an economic lens -- An economic model of human capital investment within households -- The conditionality of cash transfers -- Additional considerations and topics in the evaluation of PROGRESA -- Synergy -- Fertility -- Intra-household resource allocation, power and status of women within the household -- Incentive effects and impact on poverty -- Community and general equilibrium effects -- The experimental design and information sources used to evaluate PROGRESA -- Evaluation tools/information sources -- An evaluation of PROGRESA's targeting and its impact on poverty -- Perceptions of stakeholders regarding the selection of beneficiary households -- Summary of the methods used to evaluate the impact of PROGRESA -- A summary of the findings of the impact evaluation and a cost analysis of the program -- Impact of PROGRESA on school enrollment -- Methodology -- The impact of PROGRESA on health, nutrition, and health-care use -- Methodologies -- Impact of PROGRESA's monetary transfers on household consumption -- Impact of PROGRESA on women's status, and household relations -- Methodology -- Cost analysis of PROGRESA -- Methodology -- Conclusions and future policy considerations

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