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Do Conditional Cash Transfers for Schooling Generate Lasting Benefits?

A Five-Year Followup of PROGRESA/Oportunidades

Jere R. Behrman, Susan W. Parker and Petra E. Todd
Journal of Human Resources, January 2011, 46 (1) 93-122; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.46.1.93
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Abstract

Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs link public transfers to human capital investment in hopes of alleviating current poverty and reducing its intergenerational transmission. However, little is known about their long-term impacts. This paper evaluates longer-run impacts on schooling and work of the best-known CCT program, Mexico’s PROGRESA/Oportunidades, using experimental and nonexperimental estimators based on groups with different program exposure. The results show positive impacts on schooling, reductions in work for younger youth (consistent with postponing labor force entry), increases in work for older girls, and shifts from agricultural to nonagricultural employment. The evidence suggests schooling effects are robust with time.

  • Received August 2009.
  • Accepted January 2010.
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Jere R. Behrman, Susan W. Parker, Petra E. Todd
Journal of Human Resources Jan 2011, 46 (1) 93-122; DOI: 10.3368/jhr.46.1.93

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Do Conditional Cash Transfers for Schooling Generate Lasting Benefits?
Jere R. Behrman, Susan W. Parker, Petra E. Todd
Journal of Human Resources Jan 2011, 46 (1) 93-122; DOI: 10.3368/jhr.46.1.93
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    • I. Introduction
    • II. Program Background and a Simple Economic Analysis of Subsidy Effects
    • III. PROGRESA/Oportunidades Impacts on Schooling and Work after Five and a Half Years of an Initial 18-Month Differential Program Exposure
    • IV. Longer-Run PROGRESA/Oportunidades Impacts after Five and a Half Years of Differential Exposure
    • V. Benefit-Cost Estimates
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