The longer-term effects of human capital enrichment programs on poverty and inequality: Oportunidades in Mexico

Previous empirical research has shown at Mexico’s Oportunidades program has succeeded in increasing schooling and improving health of disadvantaged children. is paper studies the program’s potential longer-term consequences for the poverty and inequality of esthe children. It adapts methods develope...

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Autores principales: McKee,Douglas, Todd,Petra E
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Publicado: Universidad de Chile. Departamento de Economía 2011
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spelling oai:scielo:S0718-528620110001000042011-07-25The longer-term effects of human capital enrichment programs on poverty and inequality: Oportunidades in MexicoMcKee,DouglasTodd,Petra E Oportunidades Human capital Schooling health Poverty Inequality Previous empirical research has shown at Mexico’s Oportunidades program has succeeded in increasing schooling and improving health of disadvantaged children. is paper studies the program’s potential longer-term consequences for the poverty and inequality of esthe children. It adapts methods developed in DiNardo, Fortin and Lemieux (1996) and incorporates existing experimental estimates of the program’s effects on human capital to analyze how Oportunidades will affect futurthe earnings of program participants. We non parametrically simulate the earnings distributions, with and without the program, and predict at Oportunidades will increase future mean earnings but have only modest effects on poverty rates and earnings inequality.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessUniversidad de Chile. Departamento de EconomíaEstudios de economía v.38 n.1 20112011-06-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-52862011000100004en10.4067/S0718-52862011000100004
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topic Oportunidades
Human capital
Schooling
health
Poverty
Inequality
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Human capital
Schooling
health
Poverty
Inequality
McKee,Douglas
Todd,Petra E
The longer-term effects of human capital enrichment programs on poverty and inequality: Oportunidades in Mexico
description Previous empirical research has shown at Mexico’s Oportunidades program has succeeded in increasing schooling and improving health of disadvantaged children. is paper studies the program’s potential longer-term consequences for the poverty and inequality of esthe children. It adapts methods developed in DiNardo, Fortin and Lemieux (1996) and incorporates existing experimental estimates of the program’s effects on human capital to analyze how Oportunidades will affect futurthe earnings of program participants. We non parametrically simulate the earnings distributions, with and without the program, and predict at Oportunidades will increase future mean earnings but have only modest effects on poverty rates and earnings inequality.
author McKee,Douglas
Todd,Petra E
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title The longer-term effects of human capital enrichment programs on poverty and inequality: Oportunidades in Mexico
title_short The longer-term effects of human capital enrichment programs on poverty and inequality: Oportunidades in Mexico
title_full The longer-term effects of human capital enrichment programs on poverty and inequality: Oportunidades in Mexico
title_fullStr The longer-term effects of human capital enrichment programs on poverty and inequality: Oportunidades in Mexico
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