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Exploring the Differential Impact of Public Interventions on Indigenous People ’ s Schooling and Child Labor : Lessons from Mexico ’ s Conditional Cash Transfers Program
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | López-Calva, Luis Felipe Patrinos, Harry Anthony |
| Copyright Year | 2007 |
| Abstract | This paper uses panel data for Mexico for 1997 to 2000 in order to test several assumptions regarding the differential impact on indigenous households' child labor and school attendance of a conditional cash transfer program (CCT). Using data from the CCT PROGRESA-Oportunidades, we investigate the interaction between child labor, education and the condition of being indigenous. While indigenous children had a greater probability of working in 1997, this probability is reversed after treatment in the program. Indigenous children also had originally lower school attainment compared with Spanish-speaking or 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 indigenous-bilingual children. JEL classification code: I21, I32, J13, J24 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://globalpoverty.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/publications/328wp.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://scid.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/publications/328wp.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
