Search Results - subject:"PROGRESA"

Indirect effects of an aid program: the case of progresa and consumption

Angelucci, Manuela; De Giorgi, Giacomo - 2006

Aid programs in developing countries are likely to affect all households living in the treated areas, both eligible and non-eligible ones. Studies that focus on the treatment effect on the treated may fail to capture important spillover effects. We exploit the unique design of an aid program's...

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Social interactions and schooling decisions

Lalive, Rafael; Cattaneo, Maria Alejandra - 2006

The aim of this paper is to study whether schooling choices are affected by social interactions. Such social interactions may be important because children enjoy spending time with other children or parents learn from other parents about the ability of their children. Identification is based on...

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Does Conditionality Generate Heterogeneity and Regressivity in Program Impacts? The Progresa Experience

Campo, Juan Carlos Chavez-Martin del - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and … - 2006

-Bargaining approach as the solution concept. A series of tests for heterogeneity in program impacts are developed and applied to Progresa …

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Program Conditionality and Food Security: The Impact of PROGRESA and PROCAMPO Transfers in Rural Mexico

Ruiz-Arranz, M.; Davis, B.; Handa, S.; Stampini, M.; … - In: Economia 7 (2006) 2, pp. 249-278

This paper examines the PROGRESA and PROCAMPO cash transfer programs in Mexico and evaluates their impact on household … food security and nutrition. These two programs differ in their targeting and design: PROGRESA is aimed at women and … different channels - for PROGRESA through purchases while for PROCAMPO through investment in home production. This suggests that …

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Social Interactions and Schooling Decisions

Lalive, Rafael; Cattaneo, Alejandra - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2006

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Social Interactions and Schooling Decisions

Lalive, Rafael; Cattaneo, Alejandra - CESifo - 2006

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Living longer: The effect of the Mexican conditional cash transfer program on elderly mortality

Barham, Tania; Rowberry, Jacob - In: Journal of Development Economics 105 (2013) C, pp. 226-236

health check-ups. This paper exploits the phasing-in of the Mexican conditional cash transfer program, Progresa, between 1997 …

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Living longer : the effect of the mexican conditional cash transfer program on elderly mortality

Barham, Tania Catherine Jane - In: Journal of development economics 105 (2013), pp. 226-236

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Three Essays on Poverty Analysis

Chavez-Martin del Campo, Juan Carlos - 2005

Regressivity in Program Impacts? The Progresa Experience) studies bothempirically and theoretically the consequences of introducing … inprogram impacts are developed and applied to Progresa, an anti-poverty program in Mexico. It can be concluded that this …

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Aid and Migration : An Analysis of the Impact of Progresa on the Timing and Size of Labour Migration

Angelucci, Manuela - 2004

development program, Progresa, are used to estimate the effect of the potential grant size on migration. The empirical analysis is …

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