Children's Health Opportunities and Project Evaluation : Mexico's Oportunidades Program

This paper proposes a methodology to evaluate social projects from the perspective of children's opportunities on the basis of the effects of these projects on the distribution of outcomes. The evaluation is conditioned on characteristics for...

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Main Authors: Van de gaer, Dirk, Vandenbossche, Joost, Figueroa, José Luis
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
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Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2013
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spelling okr-10986-131312021-04-23T14:03:07Z Children's Health Opportunities and Project Evaluation : Mexico's Oportunidades Program Van de gaer, Dirk Vandenbossche, Joost Figueroa, José Luis AGED ANEMIA ASTHMA BENEFICIARY SELECTION BIRTH WEIGHT CHILD HEALTH CHILD MALNUTRITION CHILD NUTRITION CHILDREN AT RISK CHRONIC DISEASES COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT COMPENSATION DIABETES DIARRHEA DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN DISEASE DISTRIBUTION OF CHILDREN DOMINANCE EARLY CHILDHOOD ENROLLMENT EQUAL OPPORTUNITY FAMILIES GENDER GENDER GAP HEALTH CARE HEALTH OUTCOMES HEIGHT FOR AGE HUMAN BIOLOGY IMMUNIZATION INDIGENOUS CHILDREN INDIGENOUS PEOPLE INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS INEQUALITIES INEQUALITY INTERVENTIONS IRON JUSTICE MALNUTRITION MEDICINE METABOLISM MORBIDITY MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY MORTALITY NUTRITION NUTRITIONAL STATUS OBESITY PARENTAL EDUCATION PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY PREVALENCE PREVENTIVE HEALTH CARE PREVENTIVE MEDICINE PRIMARY EDUCATION PRIMARY HEALTH CARE REASONING RESIDENCE RISK FACTORS ROOMS RURAL AREAS SCHOOLING SEX SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL POLICY SOCIAL PROJECTS SYNDROME TRAINING PROGRAMS TREATMENT VERY YOUNG CHILDREN VITAMINS WALKING WILL YOUNG CHILDREN YOUTH This paper proposes a methodology to evaluate social projects from the perspective of children's opportunities on the basis of the effects of these projects on the distribution of outcomes. The evaluation is conditioned on characteristics for which individuals are not responsible; in this case, parental education level and indigenous background. The methodology is applied to evaluate the effects on children's health opportunities of Mexico's Oportunidades program, one of the largest conditional cash transfer programs for poor households in the world. The evidence from this program shows that gains in health opportunities for children from indigenous backgrounds are substantial and are situated in crucial parts of the distribution, whereas gains for children from nonindigenous backgrounds are more limited. 2013-04-10T18:52:26Z 2013-04-10T18:52:26Z 2013-01 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/01/17205590/childrens-health-opportunities-project-evaluation-mexicos-oportunidades-program http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13131 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 6345 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research Latin America & Caribbean Mexico
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topic AGED
ANEMIA
ASTHMA
BENEFICIARY SELECTION
BIRTH WEIGHT
CHILD HEALTH
CHILD MALNUTRITION
CHILD NUTRITION
CHILDREN AT RISK
CHRONIC DISEASES
COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
COMPENSATION
DIABETES
DIARRHEA
DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN
DISEASE
DISTRIBUTION OF CHILDREN
DOMINANCE
EARLY CHILDHOOD
ENROLLMENT
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
FAMILIES
GENDER
GENDER GAP
HEALTH CARE
HEALTH OUTCOMES
HEIGHT FOR AGE
HUMAN BIOLOGY
IMMUNIZATION
INDIGENOUS CHILDREN
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS
INEQUALITIES
INEQUALITY
INTERVENTIONS
IRON
JUSTICE
MALNUTRITION
MEDICINE
METABOLISM
MORBIDITY
MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY
MORTALITY
NUTRITION
NUTRITIONAL STATUS
OBESITY
PARENTAL EDUCATION
PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY
PREVALENCE
PREVENTIVE HEALTH CARE
PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
PRIMARY EDUCATION
PRIMARY HEALTH CARE
REASONING
RESIDENCE
RISK FACTORS
ROOMS
RURAL AREAS
SCHOOLING
SEX
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
SOCIAL POLICY
SOCIAL PROJECTS
SYNDROME
TRAINING PROGRAMS
TREATMENT
VERY YOUNG CHILDREN
VITAMINS
WALKING
WILL
YOUNG CHILDREN
YOUTH
spellingShingle AGED
ANEMIA
ASTHMA
BENEFICIARY SELECTION
BIRTH WEIGHT
CHILD HEALTH
CHILD MALNUTRITION
CHILD NUTRITION
CHILDREN AT RISK
CHRONIC DISEASES
COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
COMPENSATION
DIABETES
DIARRHEA
DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN
DISEASE
DISTRIBUTION OF CHILDREN
DOMINANCE
EARLY CHILDHOOD
ENROLLMENT
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
FAMILIES
GENDER
GENDER GAP
HEALTH CARE
HEALTH OUTCOMES
HEIGHT FOR AGE
HUMAN BIOLOGY
IMMUNIZATION
INDIGENOUS CHILDREN
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS
INEQUALITIES
INEQUALITY
INTERVENTIONS
IRON
JUSTICE
MALNUTRITION
MEDICINE
METABOLISM
MORBIDITY
MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY
MORTALITY
NUTRITION
NUTRITIONAL STATUS
OBESITY
PARENTAL EDUCATION
PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY
PREVALENCE
PREVENTIVE HEALTH CARE
PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
PRIMARY EDUCATION
PRIMARY HEALTH CARE
REASONING
RESIDENCE
RISK FACTORS
ROOMS
RURAL AREAS
SCHOOLING
SEX
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
SOCIAL POLICY
SOCIAL PROJECTS
SYNDROME
TRAINING PROGRAMS
TREATMENT
VERY YOUNG CHILDREN
VITAMINS
WALKING
WILL
YOUNG CHILDREN
YOUTH
Van de gaer, Dirk
Vandenbossche, Joost
Figueroa, José Luis
Children's Health Opportunities and Project Evaluation : Mexico's Oportunidades Program
geographic_facet Latin America & Caribbean
Mexico
relation Policy Research Working Paper;No. 6345
description This paper proposes a methodology to evaluate social projects from the perspective of children's opportunities on the basis of the effects of these projects on the distribution of outcomes. The evaluation is conditioned on characteristics for which individuals are not responsible; in this case, parental education level and indigenous background. The methodology is applied to evaluate the effects on children's health opportunities of Mexico's Oportunidades program, one of the largest conditional cash transfer programs for poor households in the world. The evidence from this program shows that gains in health opportunities for children from indigenous backgrounds are substantial and are situated in crucial parts of the distribution, whereas gains for children from nonindigenous backgrounds are more limited.
format Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
author Van de gaer, Dirk
Vandenbossche, Joost
Figueroa, José Luis
author_facet Van de gaer, Dirk
Vandenbossche, Joost
Figueroa, José Luis
author_sort Van de gaer, Dirk
title Children's Health Opportunities and Project Evaluation : Mexico's Oportunidades Program
title_short Children's Health Opportunities and Project Evaluation : Mexico's Oportunidades Program
title_full Children's Health Opportunities and Project Evaluation : Mexico's Oportunidades Program
title_fullStr Children's Health Opportunities and Project Evaluation : Mexico's Oportunidades Program
title_full_unstemmed Children's Health Opportunities and Project Evaluation : Mexico's Oportunidades Program
title_sort children's health opportunities and project evaluation : mexico's oportunidades program
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2013
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/01/17205590/childrens-health-opportunities-project-evaluation-mexicos-oportunidades-program
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13131
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