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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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vol. 46 no. 1 93-122
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.46.1.93
Published By 
University of Wisconsin Press
Print ISSN 
0022-166X
Online ISSN 
1548-8004
History 
  • Received August 1, 2009
  • Accepted January 1, 2010
  • Published online December 22, 2010.
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© 2011 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System

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  1. Jere R. Behrman,
  2. Susan W. Parker and
  3. Petra E. Todd
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    • Abstract
    • 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
    • VI. Conclusions
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