Children’s health opportunities and project evaluation: Mexico’s Oportunidades program

Dirk Van de gaer, J. Vandenbossche and J. L. Figueroa
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Working Papers of Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Belgium from Ghent University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

Abstract: We propose a methodology to evaluate social projects from an (equality of) opportunity perspective by looking at their effect on (parts of) the distribution of outcomes conditional on morally irrelevant characteristics, taken here to be parental education level and indigenous background. The methodology is applied to evaluate the effects on children’s health outcomes of Mexico’s Oportunidades program, one of the world’s largest conditional cash transfer programs for poor households. The evidence shows that the gains in health opportunities for children from indigenous background are substantial and situated in crucial parts of the distribution, while the gains for children from nonindigenous backgrounds are more limited.

Keywords: project evaluation; opportunities; oportunidades program. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 I18 I38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 48 pages
Date: 2011-10
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Journal Article: Children's Health Opportunities and Project Evaluation: Mexico's Oportunidades Program (2014)
Working Paper: Children's health opportunities and project evaluation: Mexico's oportunidades program (2014)
Working Paper: Children’s health opportunities and project evaluation: Mexico’s Oportunidades program (2012)
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