beneficiary children have reached a later stage of the life-cycle. We focus on two life-cycle transitions. The first is children … exposed to CCTs in utero or early childhood, who have then transitioned to school ages. The second is children exposed to CCTs …

development. We find significant impacts on cognitive development in children 0-60 months, with an average effect size of 0.13 SD …. We show differential impacts by type of transfer: 0-5-year-old children from families receiving the "health" transfer …, which targeted families with 0-5-year-old children only, benefited significantly from the program, whereas 0-5 year-olds in …

smaller, if enthusiasm on the part of the beneficiaries or the program team wanes. We analyze whether children exposed since …

students in Mexico. Starting in 2009, the Oportunidades conditional cash transfer (CCT) program increased the average grant in …

capital of their children. We provide new evidence on the long-term (10-year) effects of cash transfers using data from … from an experiment that randomly assigned children under the age of 6 years to early or late treatment groups. Although the … early treatment group received twice as much in total transfers, we find no difference between children in the two groups on …

percent for those exposed at school-going ages. Educational gains are much more limited for indigenous children, though grades …

In 1997, the Mexican government designed the conditional cash transfer program Progresa, which became the worldwide … years later, this paper studies the differential long-term impacts of exposure to Progresa. We focus on two cohorts of … children: i) those that during the period of differential exposure were in-utero or in the first years of life, and ii) those …