to provide an insurance function for those events for which existing insurance mechanisms function poorly" "From Text …

of PROGRESA on education, health, and nutrition as well as in other areas, such as women's status and work incentives. …

/year-specific correlated shocks, show that (1) the relative size of the migrant population in the market decreases employment probabilities of … new migrants (negative substitution effect), (2) the employment probability of previous migrants increases those of new … migrants (positive externalities), and (3) when the employment probability of previous migrants approaches to unity, the size …