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An Evaluation of the Performance of Regression Discontinuity Design on PROGRESA
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Skoufias, Emmanuel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
this paper we use a unique data set from rural Mexico collected for the purposes of evaluating the impact of the PROGRESA …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822620
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Can Social Programs be Reliably Evaluated with NonExperimental Methods? Evidence on the Performance of Regression Discontinuity Design using PROGRESA data
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Skoufias, Emmanuel - Royal Economic Society - RES - 2003
In 1997 a social program called PROGRESA was introduced in Mexico using a design for a randomized experiment. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005577159
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School Subsidies for the Poor: Evaluating the Mexican Progresa Poverty Program
Schultz, T. Paul - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2001
This paper evaluates how the Progresa Program, which provides poor mothers in rural Mexico with education grants, has … Progresa are compared to those who reside in other (control) communities. Pre-program comparisons check the randomized design …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005738382
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Microeconometric Analyses of Education Production in Germany
Piopiunik, Marc - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …
This volume was prepared by Marc Piopiunik while he has been working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in June 2011 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes four self-contained empirical studies. All studies aim at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009391731
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Effects on School Enrollment and Performance of a Conditional Cash Transfers Program in Mexico
de Janvry, Alain; Dubois, Pierre; Sadoulet, Elisabeth - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
We study the effects of a conditional cash transfers program on school enrollment and performance in Mexico. We provide … is developed to study the Mexican social program Progresa (called now Oportunidades) in which a randomized experiment has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504259
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Social Interactions and Schooling Decisions
Cattaneo, Alejandra; Lalive, Rafael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
school attendance among a sub-group of eligible children within small rural villages in Mexico. Results indicate that (i) the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791928
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The school reentry decision on poor girls: structural estimation and policy analysis using PROGRESA database
Valdés, María Nieves - Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - 2009
PROGRESA database. This structural approach allows evaluating the efectiveness of several policies to increase school reentry …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008562391
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Social Interactions and Schooling Decisions
Lalive, Rafael; Cattaneo, Alejandra - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2006
school attendance among a sub-group of eligible children within small rural villages in Mexico. Results indicate that (i) the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005585642
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Social Interactions and Schooling Decisions
Lalive, Rafael; Cattaneo, Alejandra - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
school attendance among a sub-group of eligible children within small rural villages in Mexico. Results indicate that (i) the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233866
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Social Interactions and Schooling Decisions
Lalive, Rafael; Cattaneo, Alejandra - CESifo - 2006
school attendance among a sub-group of eligible children within small rural villages in Mexico. Results indicate that (i) the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196320