DO CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFERS IMPROVE ECONOMIC OUTCOMES IN THE NEXT GENERATION? EVIDENCE FROM MEXICO

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Parker, Susan W.; Vogl, Tom
• 署名单位: University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of California System; University of California San Diego
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8067321
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 2775-2806
• 关键词: School construction; progresa; CONSEQUENCES; migration; impacts; POOR

摘要

Conditional cash transfer programmes have spread to over 60 countries in the past two decades, but little is known about their long-term effects. We estimate the lasting impact of childhood exposure to the Mexico's flagship programme Progresa by leveraging the age structure of benefits and geographic variation in early programme penetration nationwide. Childhood exposure improves women's outcomes in early adulthood with increases in educational attainment, geographic mobility, labour market performance and household living standards. For men, effects are smaller and more difficult to distinguish from spatial convergence.