TY  - JOUR
AU  - Parker, Susan W
AU  - Vogl, Tom
TI  - Do Conditional Cash Transfers Improve Economic Outcomes in the Next Generation? Evidence from Mexico
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 24303
PY  - 2018
Y2  - February 2018
DO  - 10.3386/w24303
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w24303
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w24303.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Susan W. Parker
4109 Van Munching Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
E-Mail: swparker@umd.edu

Tom Vogl
Department of Economics
University of California at San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093
Tel: 858/534-2230
E-Mail: tvogl@ucsd.edu
M2  - featured in NBER digest on 2018-05-31
AB  - Conditional cash transfer programs have spread to over 60 countries in the past two decades, but little is known about their long-term effects. We estimate the lasting impact of childhood exposure to Mexico’s flagship program Progresa by leveraging the age structure of benefits and geographic variation in early program penetration nationwide. Childhood exposure improves women’s outcomes in early adulthood, with increases in educational attainment, geographic mobility, labor market performance, and household living standards. For men, effects are smaller and more difficult to distinguish from spatial convergence.
ER  -