TY  - JOUR
AU  - Kugler, Adriana D
AU  - Rojas, Ingrid
TI  - Do CCTs Improve Employment and Earnings in the Very Long-Term? Evidence from Mexico
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 24248
PY  - 2018
Y2  - January 2018
DO  - 10.3386/w24248
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w24248
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w24248.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Adriana D. Kugler
Georgetown University
McCourt School of Public Policy
37th and O Streets NW, Suite 311
Washington, DC 20057
Tel: 202/687-5716
Fax: 202/687-5544
E-Mail: ak659@georgetown.edu

Ingrid Rojas
NORC at the University of Chicago
E-Mail: ir118@georgetown.edu
AB  - We assess long-term impacts of the Mexican conditional cash transfer (CCT) program on youth employment and earnings. We rely on the original random assignment into early and late treatment localities, which introduced CCTs in 1998 and 2000. We focus on children between 7 and 16 years of age in 1997, who we follow up to 17 years later. Using the household surveys between 2003 and 2015, we find that those with greater time of exposure to CCTs had greater increases in educational attainment. Moreover, we find significant and positive impacts of the program on the likelihood and quality of employment.
ER  -