PROGRESA and its Impacts on the Human Capital and Welfare of Households in Rural Mexico: A Synthesis of the Results of an Evaluation by IFPRI

By Emmanuel Skoufias. 2001

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The Targeting of Transfers in Developing Countries: Review of Experience and Lessons (2004, background): “That said, there are several limitations to this approach (Coady and Skoufias, 2001).”
Investing cash transfers to raise long term living standards (2006, background): “In fact, Parker and Skoufias (2000; 2001) do find evidence of changes in children’s labor force participation in salaried and nonsalaried activities, especially for boys; and increases in school attendance.”
Long-term impacts of the oportunidades conditional cash transfer program on rural youth in Mexico (2005, background): “3The overall evaluation of the initial years of PROGRESA is summarized in Behrman and Skoufias (2004), Skoufias (2001), Skoufias and McClafferty (2001), Parker (2003) 4See, e.g., Schultz (2002), Behrman, Sengupta and Todd (2005), and Todd and Wolpin (2004).”
Evaluating the Impact of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs (2005, methodology): “A study on beneficiaries’ perceptions of the program’s impact on welfare included a beneficiary survey; focus group discussions with beneficiaries and community mothers; key informant interviews with representatives from the Ministries of Health and Education, the mayor’s office, health care provide”
Do Natural Disasters Affect Human Capital? An Assessment Based on Existing Empirical Evidence (2010, methodology): “2 This model builds on a model developed by Skoufias et al., (2001), which presents a static version.”
Evaluating the Impact of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: Lessons from Latin America (2003, methodology): “In education9, CCT 8As discussed in Skoufias 2001, the use of the PROGRESA eligibility variable for program evaluation allows the evaluators to estimate the “intention to treat” effect.”
Conditional Cash Transfers and Their Impact on Child Work and Schooling: Evidence from the PROGRESA Program in Mexico (2001, methodology): “For a summary and synthesis of all the findings of the IFPRI-PROGRESA evaluation project, see Skoufias and McClafferty (2001) and Skoufias (2001).”
Reducing Child Poverty with Cash Transfers: A Sure Thing? (2006, background): “…poverty profile which were incorporated into the programme at a later date, beneficiary households showed a reduction in the poverty headcount rate of 11.7 percentage points from a base of 67.4%, and a reduction in the poverty gap of 12.9 percentage points from a base of 35.7% (Skoufias, 2001).”
A New Approach to Social Assistance: Latin America’s Experience with Conditional Cash Transfer Programs (2004, unknown): “In Mexico, grants at the secondary level are higher for females to provide an added incentive for reversing a pattern of unequal gender participation in secondary education and to internalize education externalities that accrue as they raise families of their own (Skoufias, 2001).”
How Cash Transfers Promote the Case for Basic Income (2008, background): “As far as targeting is concerned, research has suggested that the Progresa in Mexico was quite effective in reaching very poor households in very poor areas, but was less effective in reaching the “moderately poor” (Skoufias, 2001, p. 43).”
Economic Crises and Natural Disasters: Coping Strategies and Policy Implications (2003, background): “In fact, a number of human capital investment programs such as the PROGRESA program in Mexico have deliberately targeted cash transfers to women on the grounds that resources controlled by women are associated with better educational and nutritional outcomes of children (e.g., Skoufias, 2001).”
Family Networks and School Enrolment: Evidence from a Randomized Social Experiment (2007, background): “This may reflect the low monetary value of transfers such elderly households are eligible for (Skoufias, 2005).”
How Much Are We Willing To Pay to Send Poor Adolescents to School?: Simulating Changes to Mexico`s Oportunidades in Urban Areas (2009, unknown): “2 For further details about the Oportunidades-Progresa program refer to Skoufias (2001); Skoufias and Parker (2001); Attanasio, Meghit and Santiago (2005), and Angelucci and Attanasio (2006), among others.”