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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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    • 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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