Publication: The school reentry decision on poor girls: structural estimation and policy analysis using PROGRESA database
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2009-10
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In this paper I present a dynamic structural model of girls' schooling choices and
estimate it using the Mexican PROGRESA database. This structural approach
allows evaluating the efectiveness of several policies to increase school reentry
rates for girls in low-income households. To increase school attendance among
poor children in developing countries, policy makers have implemented
conditional cash transfers programs. Although transfers have been successful
in keeping girls at school, they do not increase school attendance among girls
who have dropped out of school. Cash transfer programs may fail because
most of these poor girls leave school to stay at home helping in housework,
rather than working for a salary. Results suggest that effective policies to
increase school reentry rates for poor girls are free access to community
nurseries and kindergartens, and increasingg the availability of secondary
schools.
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Policy evaluation, Dynamic discrete choice structural models, School choices for girls, School reentry, PROGRESA