will have lower returns if children do not have adequate levels of cognitive and social skills at an early age. This paper …-school age children, who are also more likely to be delayed. The program increased intake of nutrient-rich foods, early …

The impact of macroeconomic crises on parents' investments in the human capital of their children is a widely contested … employment decisions made by urban school-age children. He arrives at two basic findings: First, the crisis had no effect on the … attendance rates of school-age children. But the share of children who were both employed and in school fell significantly during …

applied to evaluate the effects on children's health opportunities of Mexico's Oportunidades program, one of the largest …This paper proposes a methodology to evaluate social projects from the perspective of children's opportunities on the … opportunities for children from indigenous backgrounds are substantial and are situated in crucial parts of the distribution …

examine whether the PROGRESA program of Mexico affects adult participation in the labor market and overall adult leisure time …, and they link these effects to the impact of the program on poverty. Using the experimental design of PROGRESA … leisure time. Their findings on adult work incentives are reinforced further by the result that PROGRESA leads to a …

requirement that households enroll their children in school. This paper uses a randomized study design to analyze the impact of … the Bono de Desarrollo Humano (BDH), a cash transfer program, on enrollment and child work among poor children in Ecuador …

or unconditional. Families under the conditional schemes were required to have their children ages 7-15 enrolled in … indicate that unconditional and conditional cash transfer programs have a similar impact increasing the enrollment of children … who are traditionally favored by parents for school participation, including boys, older children, and higher ability …

this paper the authors use a unique data set from rural Mexico collected for the purposes of evaluating the impact of the … PROGRESA poverty alleviation program to examine the performance of a quasi-experimental estimator, the Regression Discontinuity …). RDD estimates comparable to the experimental estimates were obtained when we used as a comparison group children from non …