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 communities with education grants, if their children...

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 communities with education grants, if their children...

The literature evaluating population and health policies is in flux, with many disciplines exploring biological and behavioral linkages from fetal development to chronic disease, disability, and late life mortality. The focus here is on research methods, findings, and questions that economists...

Con el desarrollo económico se observa un incremento en la fracción de la fuerza laboral que trabaja por un sueldo o un salario. El crecimiento de esta fracción que es contratada por firmas y gobiernos, probablemente afecta la forma en que operan los mercados de factores. El propósito de...

Cambio estructural en una economía en desarrollo. Problemas y perspectivas de Colombia es el resultado de una investigación realizada entre 1966 y 1969 por un equipo dirigido por tres jóvenes economistas que trabajaban con la Corporación Rand: Richard R. Nelson, T. Paul Schultz y Robert L....

A consensus has been forged in the last decade that recent periods of sustained growth in total factor productivity and reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling, particularly in low-income countries. Estimates of the...

Rural elderly have 40% of the income of those in urban areas, spend a larger share of their income on food, are in worse health, work later into their lives, and depend more on their children, lacking pensions and public services. The birth quota since 1980 has particularly restricted the...

Education, child nutrition, adult health/nutrition, and labor mobility are critical factors in achieving recent sustained growth in factor productivity. To compare the contribution of these four human capital inputs, an expanded specification of the wage function is estimated from household...