Previous empirical research has shown that Mexico’s Oportunidades program has succeeded in increasing schooling and improving health of disadvantaged children. This paper studies the program’s potential longer-term consequences for the poverty and inequality of these children. It adapts methods developed in DiNardo, Fortin and Lemieux (1996) and incorporates existing experimental estimates of the program’s effects on human capital to analyze how Oportunidades will affect future earnings of program participants. We nonparametrically simulate earnings distributions, with and without the program, and predict that Oportunidades will increase future mean earnings but have only modest effects on poverty rates and earnings inequa...
This paper assesses how the PROGRESA Program has affected the school enrollment of Mexican youth in ...
Evidence on Oportunidades, a successful anti-poverty program in Mexico, has suggested that changes t...
This paper assesses how the Programa Nacional de Educacion, Salud, y Alimentacion (PROGRESA) program...
Previous empirical research has shown that Mexico's Oportunidades program has succeeded in increasin...
Previous empirical research has shown that Mexico's Oportunidades program has succeeded in increasin...
Previous empirical research has shown that Mexico’s Oportunidades program has succeeded in increasin...
Education, as an indispensable component of human capital, has been acknowledged to play a critical ...
In this paper we investigate whether a conditional cash transfer program such as the Programa Nacion...
: In this paper, we studied the impact of Opportunity Human Development Program (Oportunidades) in r...
La desigualdad económica y la pobreza han persistido en América Latina a pesar de importantes cambio...
The longer-term effects of human capital enrichment programs on poverty and inequality: Oportunidade...
This paper assesses how the Programa Nacional de Educacion, Salud, y Alimentacion (PROGRESA) program...
This paper sets a computable general equilibrium model for the Mexican economy and a behavioural mic...
This paper assesses how the Programa Nacional de Educacion, Salud, y Alimentacion (PROGRESA) program...
Economic inequality and poverty have persisted in Latin America despite important changes in politic...
This paper assesses how the PROGRESA Program has affected the school enrollment of Mexican youth in ...
Evidence on Oportunidades, a successful anti-poverty program in Mexico, has suggested that changes t...
This paper assesses how the Programa Nacional de Educacion, Salud, y Alimentacion (PROGRESA) program...
Previous empirical research has shown that Mexico's Oportunidades program has succeeded in increasin...
Previous empirical research has shown that Mexico's Oportunidades program has succeeded in increasin...
Previous empirical research has shown that Mexico’s Oportunidades program has succeeded in increasin...
Education, as an indispensable component of human capital, has been acknowledged to play a critical ...
In this paper we investigate whether a conditional cash transfer program such as the Programa Nacion...
: In this paper, we studied the impact of Opportunity Human Development Program (Oportunidades) in r...
La desigualdad económica y la pobreza han persistido en América Latina a pesar de importantes cambio...
The longer-term effects of human capital enrichment programs on poverty and inequality: Oportunidade...
This paper assesses how the Programa Nacional de Educacion, Salud, y Alimentacion (PROGRESA) program...
This paper sets a computable general equilibrium model for the Mexican economy and a behavioural mic...
This paper assesses how the Programa Nacional de Educacion, Salud, y Alimentacion (PROGRESA) program...
Economic inequality and poverty have persisted in Latin America despite important changes in politic...
This paper assesses how the PROGRESA Program has affected the school enrollment of Mexican youth in ...
Evidence on Oportunidades, a successful anti-poverty program in Mexico, has suggested that changes t...
This paper assesses how the Programa Nacional de Educacion, Salud, y Alimentacion (PROGRESA) program...