The school reentry decision on poor girls: structural estimation and policy analysis using PROGRESA database

Nieves Valdés

UC3M Working papers. Economics from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía

Abstract: In this paper I present a dynamic structural model of girls' schooling choices and estimate it using the Mexican PROGRESA database. This structural approach allows evaluating the efectiveness of several policies to increase school reentry rates for girls in low-income households. To increase school attendance among poor children in developing countries, policy makers have implemented conditional cash transfers programs. Although transfers have been successful in keeping girls at school, they do not increase school attendance among girls who have dropped out of school. Cash transfer programs may fail because most of these poor girls leave school to stay at home helping in housework, rather than working for a salary. Results suggest that effective policies to increase school reentry rates for poor girls are free access to community nurseries and kindergartens, and increasingg the availability of secondary schools.

Keywords: Policy; evaluation; Dynamic; discrete; choice; structural; models; School; choices; for; girls; School; reentry; PROGRESA (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I28 J16 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-10
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