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The school reentry decision on poor girls: structural estimation and policy analysis using PROGRESA database

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dc.affiliation.dptoUC3M. Departamento de Economíaes
dc.contributor.authorValdés, Nieves
dc.contributor.editorUniversidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía
dc.date.accessioned2010-03-16T12:36:59Z
dc.date.available2010-03-16T12:36:59Z
dc.date.issued2009-10
dc.description.abstractIn 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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dc.identifier.issn2340-5031
dc.identifier.repecwe101406
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10016/7368
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofseriesUC3M Working papers. Economics
dc.relation.ispartofseries10-06
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España
dc.rights.accessRightsopen access
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
dc.subject.ecienciaEconomía
dc.subject.jelI21
dc.subject.jelI28
dc.subject.jelJ16
dc.subject.jelO15
dc.subject.otherPolicy evaluation
dc.subject.otherDynamic discrete choice structural models
dc.subject.otherSchool choices for girls
dc.subject.otherSchool reentry
dc.subject.otherPROGRESA
dc.titleThe school reentry decision on poor girls: structural estimation and policy analysis using PROGRESA database
dc.typeworking paper*
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