We investigate the impact of a unique anti-poverty program in Mexico on health outcomes. The program, PROGRESA, combines a traditional cash transfer program with financial incentives for families to invest in human capital of children (health, education and nutrition). In order to receive the cash transfer, families must obtain preventive health care, participate in growth monitoring and nutrition supplements programs, and attend education programs about health and hygiene. Incentive-based welfare programs like PROGRESA are being implemented throughout Latin America including Argentina
As exemplified by the Millennium Declaration of the United Nations, the reduction of poverty and hun...
In the 1990s Mexico launched a new social program—PROGRESA (now known as Oportunidades). As a condit...
This working papers offers an impact evaluation of two innovative programs cash transfer schemes fro...
We investigate the impact of a unique anti-poverty program in Mexico on health outcomes. The program...
In this paper, we investigate the impact of a unique anti-poverty program in Mexico on health. The p...
For many of the world’s poor, public safety-net programs are the only hope for a life free from chro...
In August 1997 Mexico introduced an innovative antipoverty program called PROGRESA (later called Opo...
For many of the world’s poor, public safety-net programs are the only hope for a life free from chro...
Since 1997 Mexico has provided poor families with cash benefits linked to children’s school attendan...
For many of the world’s poor, public safety-net programs are the only hope for a life free from chro...
In this paper we investigate whether a conditional cash transfer program such as the Programa Nacion...
In the second half of the twentieth century, many developing countries adopted broad social assistan...
It is well established that poverty during early childhood can have deleterious consequences. Unfavo...
The article examines the report about the impact of Programa de Educación, Salud y Alimentación (PRO...
Programa Nacional de Educacion, Salud y Alimentacion (PROGRESA) is one of the major programs of the ...
As exemplified by the Millennium Declaration of the United Nations, the reduction of poverty and hun...
In the 1990s Mexico launched a new social program—PROGRESA (now known as Oportunidades). As a condit...
This working papers offers an impact evaluation of two innovative programs cash transfer schemes fro...
We investigate the impact of a unique anti-poverty program in Mexico on health outcomes. The program...
In this paper, we investigate the impact of a unique anti-poverty program in Mexico on health. The p...
For many of the world’s poor, public safety-net programs are the only hope for a life free from chro...
In August 1997 Mexico introduced an innovative antipoverty program called PROGRESA (later called Opo...
For many of the world’s poor, public safety-net programs are the only hope for a life free from chro...
Since 1997 Mexico has provided poor families with cash benefits linked to children’s school attendan...
For many of the world’s poor, public safety-net programs are the only hope for a life free from chro...
In this paper we investigate whether a conditional cash transfer program such as the Programa Nacion...
In the second half of the twentieth century, many developing countries adopted broad social assistan...
It is well established that poverty during early childhood can have deleterious consequences. Unfavo...
The article examines the report about the impact of Programa de Educación, Salud y Alimentación (PRO...
Programa Nacional de Educacion, Salud y Alimentacion (PROGRESA) is one of the major programs of the ...
As exemplified by the Millennium Declaration of the United Nations, the reduction of poverty and hun...
In the 1990s Mexico launched a new social program—PROGRESA (now known as Oportunidades). As a condit...
This working papers offers an impact evaluation of two innovative programs cash transfer schemes fro...