Search Results - subject:"PROGRESA"

Are parents altruistic? Evidence from Mexico

Schluter, Christian; Wahba, Jackline - In: Journal of Population Economics 23 (2010) 3, pp. 1025-1046

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Schultz, T. Paul - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2001

This paper assesses how the Programa Nacional de Educacion, Salud, y Alimentacion (PROGRESA) program has affected the … school enrollment of Mexican youth in the first 15 months of its operation. PROGRESA provides poor mothers in poor rural … children who reside in communities randomly selected to participate in the initial phase of the PROGRESA program and those who …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997316

An evaluation of the distributional power of PROGRESA's cash transfers in Mexico

Coady, David P. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2001

's Programa Nacional de Educacion, Salud y Alimentacion (PROGRESA) transfers using the so-called distributional characteristic …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997344

Poverty, inequality, and spillover in Mexico's education, health, and nutrition program

Handa, Sudhanshu; Huerta, Mari-Carmen; Perez, Raul; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2001

Alimentacion (PROGRESA) using household-level data from various rounds of PROGRESA's evaluation sample (the Encuesta de Evaluacion … de los Hogares [ENCEL] surveys).Other reports in the evaluation series have focused on the direct effects of PROGRESA …, and school and health care attendance rates, in order to assess the impact of PROGRESA at this level. Using the data sets …

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Heterogeneous Human Capital and Migration: Who Migrates from Mexico to the US?

Caponi, Vincenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Mexican and US Censuses, and use the calibrated model for policy evaluation. I evaluate the long run effect of the Progresa …

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Indirect Effects of an Aid Program: The Case of Progresa and Consumption

Angelucci, Manuela; Giorgi, Giacomo De - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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

Cattaneo, Alejandra; Lalive, Rafael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 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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Social Interactions and Schooling Decisions

Lalive, Rafael; Cattaneo, Alejandra - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

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

Angelucci, Manuela - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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Do public transfers crowd out private transfers?: Evidence from a randomized experiment in Mexico

Albarran, Pedro; Attanasio, Orazio P. - In: Insurance against poverty, (pp. 281-304). 2004

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