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

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

This paper proposes 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. The evaluation is conditioned on characteristics for...

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Main Authors:	Van de gaer, Dirk, Vandenbossche, Joost, Figueroa, José Luis
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2013
Subjects:	AGED ANEMIA ASTHMA BENEFICIARY SELECTION BIRTH WEIGHT CHILD HEALTH CHILD MALNUTRITION CHILD NUTRITION CHILDREN AT RISK CHRONIC DISEASES COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT COMPENSATION DIABETES DIARRHEA DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN DISEASE DISTRIBUTION OF CHILDREN DOMINANCE EARLY CHILDHOOD ENROLLMENT EQUAL OPPORTUNITY FAMILIES GENDER GENDER GAP HEALTH CARE HEALTH OUTCOMES HEIGHT FOR AGE HUMAN BIOLOGY IMMUNIZATION INDIGENOUS CHILDREN INDIGENOUS PEOPLE INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS INEQUALITIES INEQUALITY INTERVENTIONS IRON JUSTICE MALNUTRITION MEDICINE METABOLISM MORBIDITY MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY MORTALITY NUTRITION NUTRITIONAL STATUS OBESITY PARENTAL EDUCATION PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY PREVALENCE PREVENTIVE HEALTH CARE PREVENTIVE MEDICINE PRIMARY EDUCATION PRIMARY HEALTH CARE REASONING RESIDENCE RISK FACTORS ROOMS RURAL AREAS SCHOOLING SEX SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL POLICY SOCIAL PROJECTS SYNDROME TRAINING PROGRAMS TREATMENT VERY YOUNG CHILDREN VITAMINS WALKING WILL YOUNG CHILDREN YOUTH
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/01/17205590/childrens-health-opportunities-project-evaluation-mexicos-oportunidades-program http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13131

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Summary:	This paper proposes 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. The evaluation is conditioned on characteristics for which individuals are not responsible; in this case, 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.