Exploring the Differential Impact of Public Interventions on Indigenous People : Lessons from Mexico’s Conditional Cash Transfers Program

This paper uses experimental panel data for Mexico from 1997 to 2000 in order to test assumptions on the impact of a conditional cash transfer (CCT) program on child labor and school attendance, adding to the literature by emphasizing the differential impact on indigenous households. Using data from...

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Main Authors:	López-Calva, Luís Felipe, Patrinos, Harry Anthony
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	Taylor and Francis 2015
Subjects:	child labor indigenous conditional cash transfer
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23518

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spelling	okr-10986-235182021-04-23T14:04:15Z Exploring the Differential Impact of Public Interventions on Indigenous People : Lessons from Mexico’s Conditional Cash Transfers Program López-Calva, Luís Felipe Patrinos, Harry Anthony child labor indigenous conditional cash transfer This paper uses experimental panel data for Mexico from 1997 to 2000 in order to test assumptions on the impact of a conditional cash transfer (CCT) program on child labor and school attendance, adding to the literature by emphasizing the differential impact on indigenous households. Using data from the CCT program, PROGRESA (later on known as OPORTUNIDADES), we investigate the interaction between child labor, education and indigenous households. While indigenous children had a greater probability of working before the intervention, this probability is reversed after treatment in the program. Indigenous monolingual children also had lower school attainment compared with Spanish-speaking or indigenous bilingual children. After the program, school attainment among indigenous children increased, reducing the gap. In terms of child labor, the larger reduction is in the group of bilingual children. 2015-12-28T15:15:31Z 2015-12-28T15:15:31Z 2015-09-22 Journal Article Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 1945-2829 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23518 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Taylor and Francis Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research Mexico
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description	This paper uses experimental panel data for Mexico from 1997 to 2000 in order to test assumptions on the impact of a conditional cash transfer (CCT) program on child labor and school attendance, adding to the literature by emphasizing the differential impact on indigenous households. Using data from the CCT program, PROGRESA (later on known as OPORTUNIDADES), we investigate the interaction between child labor, education and indigenous households. While indigenous children had a greater probability of working before the intervention, this probability is reversed after treatment in the program. Indigenous monolingual children also had lower school attainment compared with Spanish-speaking or indigenous bilingual children. After the program, school attainment among indigenous children increased, reducing the gap. In terms of child labor, the larger reduction is in the group of bilingual children.
format	Journal Article
author	López-Calva, Luís Felipe Patrinos, Harry Anthony
author_facet	López-Calva, Luís Felipe Patrinos, Harry Anthony
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title	Exploring the Differential Impact of Public Interventions on Indigenous People : Lessons from Mexico’s Conditional Cash Transfers Program
title_short	Exploring the Differential Impact of Public Interventions on Indigenous People : Lessons from Mexico’s Conditional Cash Transfers Program
title_full	Exploring the Differential Impact of Public Interventions on Indigenous People : Lessons from Mexico’s Conditional Cash Transfers Program
title_fullStr	Exploring the Differential Impact of Public Interventions on Indigenous People : Lessons from Mexico’s Conditional Cash Transfers Program
title_full_unstemmed	Exploring the Differential Impact of Public Interventions on Indigenous People : Lessons from Mexico’s Conditional Cash Transfers Program
title_sort	exploring the differential impact of public interventions on indigenous people : lessons from mexico’s conditional cash transfers program
publisher	Taylor and Francis
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Exploring the Differential Impact of Public Interventions on Indigenous People : Lessons from Mexico’s Conditional Cash Transfers Program

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