Child labor, school attendance, and indigenous households
Subtitle: Evidence from Mexico
By: Harry Anthony Patrinos, Rosangela Bando, and Luis F. Lopez-Calva.
Contributors: Bando, Rosangela.; World Bank.
Series: Policy research working paper ;; 3487; Policy research working papers (Online) ;; 3487.
Publisher: World Bank
Published: 2005
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Child labor -- Mexico.; School attendance -- Mexico.
Description: "The authors use panel data for Mexico for 1997 to 1999 to test several assumptions regarding the impact of a conditional cash transfer program on child labor, emphasizing the differential impact on indigenous households.  Using data from the conditional cash transfer program in Mexico--PROGRESA (OPORTUNIDADES)--they investigate the interaction between child labor and indigenous households.  While indigenous children had a greater probability of working in 1997, this probability is reversed after treatment in the program.  Indigenous children also had lower school attainment compared with Spanish-speaking or bilingual children.  After the program, school attainment among indigenous children increased, reducing the gap.  This paper--a product of the Education Sector Unit, Latin America and the Caribbean Region--is part of a larger effort in the region to evaluate human development programs"--World Bank web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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