Conditional cash transfers and schooling decisions: Evidence from urban Mexico

Arbeitspapier

Using administrative data from the urban Mexican Oportunidades program, this paper analyzes why poor households choose less education for their children, even when offered financial compensation for school attendance. Each school year, half of recipients forgo income for which they are eligible by failing to send children to school. Using a random effects probit and fractional response model, the analysis provides strong evidence that the poorest households, those with more dependents and high school students, recipients with limited education, and those living in large urban areas are less likely to have their children attend school and thus receive partial payments.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IDB Working Paper Series ; No. IDB-WP-721

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Analysis of Education ; Measurement and Analysis of Poverty ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
• Thema: cash transfers ; conditionality ; school attendance ; Oportunidades ; Mexico

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Heracleous, Maria ; Gonzáles Flores, Mario ; Winters, Paul
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
• (wo): Washington, DC
• (wann): 2016

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/173814
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ