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

Dirk Van de gaer, Joost Vandenbossche and Jose Luis Figueroa

No 6345, Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank

Abstract: This paper proposes a methodology to evaluate social projects from the perspective of children's opportunities on the basis of the effects of these projects on the distribution of outcomes. The evaluation is conditioned on characteristics for which individuals are not responsible; in this case, parental education level and indigenous background. The methodology is applied to evaluate the effects on children's health opportunities of Mexico's Oportunidades program, one of the largest conditional cash transfer programs for poor households in the world. The evidence from this program shows that gains in health opportunities for children from indigenous backgrounds are substantial and are situated in crucial parts of the distribution, whereas gains for children from nonindigenous backgrounds are more limited.

Keywords: Health Monitoring&Evaluation; Disease Control&Prevention; Gender and Law; Primary Education; Street Children (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-01-01
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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)
Working Paper: Children’s health opportunities and project evaluation: Mexico’s Oportunidades program (2011)
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