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Helping Children Catch Up: Early Life Shocks and the PROGRESA Experiment

Helping Children Catch Up: Early Life Shocks and the PROGRESA Experiment

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Helping Children Catch Up: Early Life Shocks and the PROGRESA Experiment

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Helping Children Catch Up: Early Life Shocks and the PROGRESA Experiment

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Journal title

The Economic journal (London), 2023-12, Vol.134 (657), p.1-22

Language

English

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Oxford University Press

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Abstract
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 substantia...

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Helping Children Catch Up: Early Life Shocks and the PROGRESA Experiment

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TN_cdi_crossref_citationtrail_10_1093_ej_uead067

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_crossref_citationtrail_10_1093_ej_uead067

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ISSN

0013-0133

E-ISSN

1468-0297

DOI

10.1093/ej/uead067

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