Conditional Cash Transfers and Schooling Decisions: Evidence from Urban Mexico

Maria Heracleous, Mario González Flores and Paul Winters ()

No 7832, IDB Publications (Working Papers) from Inter-American Development Bank

Abstract: Using administrative data from the urban Mexican Oportunidades program, this paper analyzes why poor households choose less education for their children, even when offered financial compensation for school attendance. Each school year, half of recipients forgo income for which they are eligible by failing to send children to school. Using a random effects probit and fractional response model, the analysis provides strong evidence that the poorest households, those with more dependents and high school students, recipients with limited education, and those living in large urban areas are less likely to have their children attend school and thus receive partial payments.

Keywords: schooling decisions; school enrollment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I32 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-08
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://publications.iadb.org/publications/english ... rom-Urban-Mexico.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:idb:brikps:7832

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in IDB Publications (Working Papers) from Inter-American Development Bank Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Felipe Herrera Library ().