Search Results - subject:"PROGRESA"

Long-term impacts of conditional cash transfers : review of the evidence

Molina Millán, Teresa; Barham, Tania Catherine Jane; … - In: The World Bank research observer : WBRO 34 (2019) 1, pp. 119-159

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Do early-ending conditional cash transfer programs crowd out school enrollment?

Wiegand, Martin - 2019

payments stop in the middle of the school career. To that end, I examine Mexico's Progresa, which covered students only until … conjunction with doubly-robust estimation. I find that exposure to Progresa during middle school reduced the probability to …

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Control of resources, bargaining power and the demand of food : evidence from PROGRESA

Tommasi, Denni - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 161 (2019), pp. 265-286

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Neighborhood peer effects in the use of preventive health care

Bouckaert, Nicolas - 2014

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Neighbourhood Effects in Consumption: Evidence from Disaggregated Consumption Data

Boneva, Teodora - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2013

This paper identifies neighbourhood effects in consumption using the randomized nature of the Progresa programme …

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The schooling repayment hypothesis for private transfers:Evidence from the PROGRESA/Oportunidades experiment

Chiapa, Carlos; Juarez, Laura - Centro de Investigación Económica (CIE), Departamento … - 2012

evidence on the repayment motive using data from the Mexican conditional cash transfer program PROGRESA/Oportunidades. The … parents are in part repayment for parental schooling investments made in the past, then PROGRESA/Oportunidades should decrease … started receiving benets in 1999. Our results suggest that (i) there exists a repayment motive and (ii) that PROGRESA …

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Spillover Effects in Healthcare Programs: Evidence on Social Norms and Information Sharing

Avitabile, Ciro - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

countries are extremely high. This paper exploits the randomized research design of a large welfare program "PROGRESA" to study … evaluation sample and the nationwide rollout are consistent with the hypothesis that the PROGRESA program has weakened the social …

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Wealthy, healthy, and wise: does money compensate for being born into difficult conditions?

Manley, James; Fernald, Lia; Gertler, Paul - Department of Economics, Towson University - 2012

Recent studies have linked transfers from Mexican conditional cash transfer program Oportunidades (formerly PROGRESA …

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Oh Brother! Testing the Etiology of Sibling Effects Using External Cash Transfers

Manley, James; Fernald, Lia; Gertler, Paul - Department of Economics, Towson University - 2012

Siblings can slow child development, but distinguishing intrinsic from economic circumstances has been more difficult. The grants of the Oportunidades Mexican welfare program allo w us to test this linkage. We investigate whether transfers increase firstborn characteristics faster than other...

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MAIN ASPECTS CONCERNING INTELLECTUAL SERVICES PRODUCTIVITY WITH FOCUS TO EDUCATION

Alexandru, Jivan; Janeta, Weisz - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2012) 2, pp. 214-218

Part of a larger research, this paper aims to point out several key elements of the productivity in the field of services, with application to the intellect-intensive ones: the main concern is for educational services.Methodologically, the paper starts with the framing in the context of the...

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