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The Impact of PROGRESA on Child Labor and Schooling

In: Child Labor and Education in Latin America

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  • Emmanuel Skoufias
  • Susan W. Parker

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Over the past few years within Latin America, a number of new antipov-erty programs have been introduced specifically to increase investment in human capital. Their success is measured in particular by education, but also by health and nutrition. In general, these programs represent a significant departure from previous antipoverty policies within the region, for they are based on the premise that a fundamental cause of poverty and of its intergenerational transmission is the lack of investment in human development. A distinguishing characteristic of these programs is the provision of cash transfers on the condition that poor families take their children out of work and send them to school.

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  • Emmanuel Skoufias & Susan W. Parker, 2009. "The Impact of PROGRESA on Child Labor and Schooling," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Peter F. Orazem & Guilherme Sedlacek & Zafiris Tzannatos (ed.), Child Labor and Education in Latin America, chapter 10, pages 167-185, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-62010-0_11
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230620100_11
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    1. Sandra García & Juan Saavedra, 2017. "Educational Impacts and Cost-Effectiveness of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs in Developing Countries: A Meta-Analysis," NBER Working Papers 23594, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

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