Helping Children Catch Up

Early Life Shocks and the PROGRESA Experiment

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9704058
AutoresAchyuta Adhvaryu (University of California San Diego, NBER, J-PAL, BREAD, Good Business Lab , USA), Teresa Molina (0000-0003-3829-0042, University of Hawaii at Manoa & IZA , USA), Anant Nyshadham (0000-0001-9165-5528, University of Michigan , NBER, J-PAL, BREAD, Good Business Lab , USA), Jorge Tamayo (0000-0002-8410-264X, Harvard Business School)
Ano2023
Volume134
Fascículo657
Páginas1-22
Data de publicação2023-12-07
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Economic Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0013-0133 • E-ISSN: 1468-0297
EditoraOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/ej/uead067
OpenAlexW3121581215
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas42

Children who face significant disadvantage early in life are often found to be worse off years or even decades later. Can conditional cash transfer programs mitigate the negative consequences and help these children catch up with their peers? We answer this question using data from rural Mexico, where rainfall shocks can have substantial effects on household income. We find that adverse rainfall in a child's year of birth decreases grade attainment, post-secondary enrolment and employment outcomes. But declines were much smaller for children whose families were randomised to receive the conditional cash transfer program, PROGRESA: each additional year of PROGRESA exposure during childhood mitigated almost 20% of the early disadvantage in grade attainment

Cash · Cash transfers · Conditional cash transfer · Demographic economics · Developmental psychology · Disadvantage · Early childhood · Economic growth · Economics · Incentive · Political science · Poverty · Resource (disambiguation · Sociology · Agricultural risk and resilience · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Demography · Finance · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology