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

Dirk Van de gaer, Joost Vandenbossche and José Luis Figueroa
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Joost Vandenbossche: SHERPPA, F.E.B., Ghent University, B-9000 Gent, Belgium
José Luis Figueroa: SHERPPA, F.E.B., Ghent University, B-9000 Gent and CES, KULeuven, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium

No 2012015, LIDAM Discussion Papers CORE from Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE)

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 non-indigenous 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)
Date: 2012-04-05
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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 (2013)
Working Paper: Children’s health opportunities and project evaluation: Mexico’s Oportunidades program (2011)
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