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An Evaluation of the Performance of Regression Discontinuity Design on PROGRESA
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Skoufias, Emmanuel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
this paper we use a unique data set from rural Mexico collected for the purposes of evaluating the impact of the PROGRESA …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822620
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Can Social Programs be Reliably Evaluated with NonExperimental Methods? Evidence on the Performance of Regression Discontinuity Design using PROGRESA data
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Skoufias, Emmanuel - Royal Economic Society - RES - 2003
In 1997 a social program called PROGRESA was introduced in Mexico using a design for a randomized experiment. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005577159
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Microeconometric Analyses of Education Production in Germany
Piopiunik, Marc - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …
This volume was prepared by Marc Piopiunik while he has been working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in June 2011 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes four self-contained empirical studies. All studies aim at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009391731
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Effects on School Enrollment and Performance of a Conditional Cash Transfers Program in Mexico
de Janvry, Alain; Dubois, Pierre; Sadoulet, Elisabeth - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
We study the effects of a conditional cash transfers program on school enrollment and performance in Mexico. We provide … is developed to study the Mexican social program Progresa (called now Oportunidades) in which a randomized experiment has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504259
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Social Interactions and Schooling Decisions
Lalive, Rafael; Cattaneo, Alejandra - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
school attendance among a sub-group of eligible children within small rural villages in Mexico. Results indicate that (i) the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233866
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Social Interactions and Schooling Decisions
Lalive, Rafael; Cattaneo, Alejandra - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2006
school attendance among a sub-group of eligible children within small rural villages in Mexico. Results indicate that (i) the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005585642
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Social Interactions and Schooling Decisions
Cattaneo, Alejandra; Lalive, Rafael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
school attendance among a sub-group of eligible children within small rural villages in Mexico. Results indicate that (i) the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791928
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Effects on school enrollment and performance of a conditional transfers program in Mexico
Dubois, P.; De Janvry, A.; Sadoulet, E. - Département d'Économie et Sociologie Rurales, … - 2002
We study the effects of a conditional transfers program on school enrollment and performance in Mexico. We provide a … identification of the program impact on this model is studied. This framework is used to study the Mexican social program Progresa in … Progresa had always a positive impact on school continuation whereas for performance it had a positive impact at primary school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005773019
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Long-Term Impacts of Compensatory Preschool on Health and Behavior: Evidence from Head Start
Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics, … - 2014
This paper provides new estimates of the medium and long-term impacts of Head Start on health and behavioral problems. We identify these impacts using discontinuities in the probability of participation induced by program eligibility rules. Our strategy allows us to identify the effect of Head...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010828422
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In a Small Moment: Class Size and Moral Hazard in the Mezzogiorno
Angrist, Joshua; Battistin, Erich; Vuri, Daniela - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
An instrumental variables (IV) identification strategy that exploits statutory class size caps shows significant achievement gains in smaller classes in Italian primary schools. Gains from small classes are driven mainly by schools in Southern Italy, suggesting a substantial return to class size...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265897