The impact of Oportunidades on human capital and income distribution: A top-down/bottom-up approach

Dario Debowicz () and Jennifer Golan

No 1257, IFPRI discussion papers from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: In an effort to inform social policy in Mexico, this paper analyzes the effects of a major social program on school attendance and household income distribution, accounting for its partial and general equilibrium effects. Linking a microeconometric simulation model and a general equilibrium model in a bidirectional way, the paper explicitly takes spillover effects of the Oportunidades conditional cash transfer program into account. Our results suggest that partial equilibrium analysis alone may underestimate the distributional effects of the program.

Keywords: Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model; Microsimulation model; Oportunidades; Child labor; Income inequality; Poverty; social policies; Public policy; , (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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