Conditional Transfers, Labor Supply, and Poverty: Microsimulating Oportunidades

Freije, Samuel; Bando, Rosangela; Arce, Fernanda

doi:10.1353/eco.2007.0004

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“…Dropout rates decreased by 24 percent, with a corresponding rise in completion rates of 23 percent for rural secondary schools (Skoufias and di Maro, 2005). These results predict an increase in children's future permanent earnings by about eight percent when they reach adulthood (see Freije et al, 2006).…”

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Mexico’s Progresa-Oportunidades and the Emergence of Social Assistance in Latin America

Niño‐Zarazúa

2011

SSRN Journal

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Creating and sharing knowledge to help end poverty www.manchester.ac.uk/bwpi 2 AbstractThis paper provides an overview of the political and economic context under which Mexico's Progresa-Oportunidades was introduced to prelude the emergence of social assistance in Latin America. The paper identifies four distinctive features of the programme that were revolutionary in their own right. First, the Progresa-Oportunidades embraced a multidimensional approach to poverty, linking income transfers with simultaneous interventions in health, education and nutrition. Second, the programme focused on the poor. This is in clear contrast to generalised food subsidies and other targeted interventions that dominated the antipoverty agenda in the past. Third, the programme followed a complex system of identification and selection of beneficiaries to prevent discretionary political manipulation of public funds. Finally, an independent impact evaluation protocol proved to be critical for both improving the programme's effectiveness and strengthening its legitimacy across different political factions and constituencies. The paper concludes that the success of Progresa-Oportunidades must be understood in a broader context, where a harsh economic and political environment, coupled with a rapid democratisation and increasing political competition, laid down the foundations for the introduction and then sustained expansion of the programme.

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Section: Impacts On Schoolingmentioning

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Mexico’s Progresa-Oportunidades and the Emergence of Social Assistance in Latin America

Niño‐Zarazúa

2011

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“…Cash transfer studies have produced mixed results (Grosh et al., ) and empirical work has mainly focused on the effects of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs on labor force participation and labor supply in Latin America. For example, the CCT program PROGRESSA (later renamed Oportunidades) was found to have either created negligible or no work disincentives among adults in Mexico (Parker and Skoufias, ; Skoufias and Di Maro, ; Freije et al., ).…”

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Public Transfers and Participation Decisions in Botswana's Subsistence Economy

Seleka

Lekobane

2016

Review Development Economics

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Botswana has an extensive set of publicly provided cash and in-kind food transfers geared at providing a safety net to poor and vulnerable groups. While such programs have improved household welfare, from a theoretical perspective they could have also created work disincentives or welfare dependency among recipient families. This article tackles this issue by modeling the impact of publicly provided cash and inkind food transfers on farmer participation decisions in the subsistence crop economy in Botswana, using a probit regression and agricultural census data for 2004. Results show that social pensions have had no impact on farmer participation decisions, most likely because they are too small to influence household behavior. However, government food rations (GFRs) have reduced the probability of farmer participation in subsistence crop production, and, hence, have created work disincentive among recipient subsistence families. Specifically, recipient families of GFRs are 8.1 percentage points less likely to participate in crop production than non-recipient households.

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“…A study by Lopez-Acevedo (2004) finds that educational inequality accounts for the largest share of Mexico’s earnings inequality, suggesting that human capital enrichment programs could be an effective instrument for reducing inequality. Freije, Bando and Arce (2006) show that Oportunidades has significantly decreased the poverty rate among the current generation of recipients, but little is known about the longer-term effects of the program on poverty.…”

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“… 2 See, e.g., Schultz (2000,2004), Gertler (2000), Behrman, Sengupta and Todd (2005), Parker and Skoufias (2000), Buddelmeyer and Skoufias (2003), Todd and Wolpin (2006) and Freije, Bando and Arce (2006). …”

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