PROGRESA and Its Impacts on the Welfare of Rural Households in Mexico

By Emmanuel Skoufias. 2005

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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The Ecological Footprint of Poverty Alleviation: Evidence from Mexico's Oportunidades Program (2010, positive): “The experiment included several baseline and evaluation surveys that have been used in previous studies (see Skoufias, 2005, section 3, for a description of the evaluation design).”
Welfare consequences of food prices increases: Evidence from rural Mexico (2013, background): “The new 158 villages are systematically different from the original ones, having been considered not marginal enough to be targeted in the first phase of the PROGRESA/Oportunidades expansion.”
For Protection and Promotion: The Design and Implementation of Effective Safety Nets (2008, background): “In contrast, the deficit in the main federal pension program covered from general revenues is 3.7 percent of GDP and delivers over 50 percent of its benefits to the country’s richest quintile (Lindert, Skoufias, and Shapiro 2006).”
Cash transfers, conditions, school enrollment, and child work: evidence from a randomized experiment in Ecuador (2006, background): “As a point of comparison, PROGRESA transfers accounted for about 20 percent of average household expenditures in Mexico (Skoufias 2005).”
Must Conditional Cash Transfer Programs be Conditioned to be Effective? The Impact of Conditioning Transfers on School Enrollment in Mexico (2011, background): “2 For example, see the work on PROGRESA summarized in Skoufias (2005) and Levy (2006) and on”
Educational Impacts and Cost-Effectiveness of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs in Developing Countries: A Meta-Analysis (2017, neutral): “The first subsection describes a simple economic model of household decision making (Filmer & Schady, 2009; Skoufias, 2005).”
Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture: What Role for Food Security in Bangladesh? (2014, positive): “Considerable evidence also suggests that mothers’ greater control over resources improves child outcomes—in particular, nutrition and education (Hallman, 2003; Quisumbing, 2003; Quisumbing & Maluccio, 2003; Skoufias, 2005).”
Empowering parents to improve education: evidence from rural Mexico (2006, methodology): “This study contributes to a small literature on SBM in developing countries.4 Several studies rely on cross-sectional variation, ex-post propensity score matching and exclusion restrictions – either using functional forms or weak instrumental variables – thus leaving their ability to establish causa”
Conditional Cash Transfers, Adult Work Incentives, and Poverty (2006, neutral): “For more details see Skoufias (2005).”
The Heterogeneous Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers (2013, background): “1 The Progresa experiment in Mexico showed short-run enrollment effects of less than one percentage point among primary children—with primary enrollment rates already exceeding 90%—but 6-9 percentage points among secondary school children (Schultz, 2004; Behrman et al., 2005; Skoufias, 2005).”
In Pursuit of Balance: Randomization in Practice in Development Field Experiments (2008, neutral): “The first, which we dub the “big stick” method by analogy with Soares and Wu (1983), requires a re-draw if a draw shows any statistical difference in means between treatment and control group at the 5 percent level or lower.”
Investing cash transfers to raise long term living standards (2006, methodology): “Previous research on the OPORTUNIDADES program estimates that monetary transfers from the program represent approximately 20% of pre-program consumption (Hoddinott and Skoufias 2004; Skoufias 2005).”
The impact of conditional cash transfer programmes on child nutrition: a review of evidence using a programme theory framework (2009, background): “…of the cash transfers and/or the low frequency of the payments (twice a year) (International Food Policy Research Institute 2001, Olinto et al. 2003, Hoddinott and Skoufias 2004, Angelucci et al. 2005, Maluccio and Flores 2005, Skoufias 2005, Attanasio and Mesnard 2006, Adato and Bassett 2007).”
Global education digest 2011: Comparing education statistics across the world (2011, background): “In the case of education, the largest impacts were reported for children who enter secondary school – the percentage increase in enrolments was over 20% for girls and 10% for boys (Skoufias, 2005).”