The heterogeneous impact of conditional cash transfers
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The heterogeneous impact of conditional cash transfers
⁎ Corresponding author at: Department of Economics, Street, Wellesley MA 02481, United States. Tel.: +1 781 E-mail address: [email protected] (P.J. McEw 1 TheProgresa experiment inMexico showed short-run e percentage point among primary children—with primary en 90%—but 6–9 percentage points among secondary school ch et al., 2005; Skoufias, 2005). Almost six years after the treat the educati...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Public Economics
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0047-2727
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2013.04.004