Children's Health Opportunities and Project Evaluation : Mexico's Oportunidades Program

We propose a methodology to evaluate social projects from the perspective of children's opportunities on the basis of the effects of these projects on the distribution of outcomes. We condition our evaluation on characteristics for which individuals are not responsible; in this case, we use par...

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Main Authors:	Van de gaer, Dirk, Vandenbossche, Joost, Figueroa, José Luis
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2015
Subjects:	aged child nutrition diabetes families health care health outcomes immunization iron morbidity mortality nutrition nutritional status obesity primary health care risk factors sex social policy treatment vitamins walking
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23541

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spelling	okr-10986-235412021-04-23T14:04:15Z Children's Health Opportunities and Project Evaluation : Mexico's Oportunidades Program Van de gaer, Dirk Vandenbossche, Joost Figueroa, José Luis aged child nutrition diabetes families health care health outcomes immunization iron morbidity mortality nutrition nutritional status obesity primary health care risk factors sex social policy treatment vitamins walking We propose a methodology to evaluate social projects from the perspective of children's opportunities on the basis of the effects of these projects on the distribution of outcomes. We condition our evaluation on characteristics for which individuals are not responsible; in this case, we use parental education level and indigenous background. The methodology is applied to evaluate the effects on children's health opportunities of Mexico's Oportunidades program, one of the largest conditional cash transfer programs for poor households in the world. The evidence from this program shows that gains in health opportunities for children from indigenous backgrounds are substantial and are situated in crucial parts of the distribution, whereas gains for children from nonindigenous backgrounds are more limited. 2015-12-29T21:12:03Z 2015-12-29T21:12:03Z 2014-05-27 Journal Article World Bank Economic Review 1564-698X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23541 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research Mexico
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spellingShingle	aged child nutrition diabetes families health care health outcomes immunization iron morbidity mortality nutrition nutritional status obesity primary health care risk factors sex social policy treatment vitamins walking Van de gaer, Dirk Vandenbossche, Joost Figueroa, José Luis Children's Health Opportunities and Project Evaluation : Mexico's Oportunidades Program
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description	We propose a methodology to evaluate social projects from the perspective of children's opportunities on the basis of the effects of these projects on the distribution of outcomes. We condition our evaluation on characteristics for which individuals are not responsible; in this case, we use parental education level and indigenous background. The methodology is applied to evaluate the effects on children's health opportunities of Mexico's Oportunidades program, one of the largest conditional cash transfer programs for poor households in the world. The evidence from this program shows that gains in health opportunities for children from indigenous backgrounds are substantial and are situated in crucial parts of the distribution, whereas gains for children from nonindigenous backgrounds are more limited.
format	Journal Article
author	Van de gaer, Dirk Vandenbossche, Joost Figueroa, José Luis
author_facet	Van de gaer, Dirk Vandenbossche, Joost Figueroa, José Luis
author_sort	Van de gaer, Dirk
title	Children's Health Opportunities and Project Evaluation : Mexico's Oportunidades Program
title_short	Children's Health Opportunities and Project Evaluation : Mexico's Oportunidades Program
title_full	Children's Health Opportunities and Project Evaluation : Mexico's Oportunidades Program
title_fullStr	Children's Health Opportunities and Project Evaluation : Mexico's Oportunidades Program
title_full_unstemmed	Children's Health Opportunities and Project Evaluation : Mexico's Oportunidades Program
title_sort	children's health opportunities and project evaluation : mexico's oportunidades program
publisher	Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
publishDate	2015
url	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23541
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Children's Health Opportunities and Project Evaluation : Mexico's Oportunidades Program

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