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Susan W Parker, Tom Vogl, Do Conditional Cash Transfers Improve Economic Outcomes in the Next Generation? Evidence from Mexico, The Economic Journal, Volume 133, Issue 655, October 2023, Pages 2775–2806, https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/uead049
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Abstract
Conditional cash transfer programmes have spread to over 60 countries in the past two decades, but little is known about their long-term effects. We estimate the lasting impact of childhood exposure to the Mexico’s flagship programme Progresa by leveraging the age structure of benefits and geographic variation in early programme penetration nationwide. Childhood exposure improves women’s outcomes in early adulthood with increases in educational attainment, geographic mobility, labour market performance and household living standards. For men, effects are smaller and more difficult to distinguish from spatial convergence.