Barrientos, Armando; Sabates-Wheeler, Rachel - In: Applied Economics 43 (2011) 23, pp. 3175-3185
The article examines local economy effects of social transfers by focusing on food consumption and asset holdings of noneligible households in rural Mexico following the introduction of Programa de Educacion, Salud y Alimentacion (PROGRESA) in 1997. The quasi experimental nature of the...