The impact of conditional cash transfer programs on indigenous households in Latin America: Evidence from PROGRESA in Mexico
Conditional cash transfers(CCTs) are widely used antipoverty measuresin Latin America, and manysuch programs include indigenous beneficiaries.However, concerns have been raised that the indigenous poor,who have historically been marginalized,may not benefit from CCTsas much as the nonindigenouspopul...
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| author | Quiñones, Esteban J. Roy, Shalini |
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| description | Conditional cash transfers(CCTs) are widely used antipoverty measuresin Latin America, and manysuch programs include indigenous beneficiaries.However, concerns have been raised that the indigenous poor,who have historically been marginalized,may not benefit from CCTsas much as the nonindigenouspopulation, owing to cultural as well as geographic factors. Even so, rigorous evidenceshowing this effect is limited. We assessedthis issue in the context of PROGRESA (Programa de Educación, Salud, y Alimenación), an integrated approach to poverty alleviation in Mexico, in which over one-thirdofbeneficiaries were indigenous at the program’s inceptionin 1998. A feature of the program’s initial targetingwasthat indigenous and nonindigenous beneficiaries were drawn from geographically similar areas, minimizing the potential for geographic factors to lead to differential impacts.Despite an extensive literatureshowing positive average impacts of PROGRESAon health and education outcomes, few studieshave disaggregatedthese effects by indigenous status. Using the randomized assignment of initial programrollout, we estimatedPROGRESA’simpactson a range of health and education indicators, distinctly for indigenous and nonindigenousbeneficiaries.We foundthat, as of November 2000, PROGRESA had significant impacts on many health and education indicators among both indigenous and nonindigenous households in our sample; in addition, in aggregateacross most indicators, these impacts werevery similar. Our results indicate thatif geographic disadvantage for indigenous households can be minimized(a nontrivial endeavor),cultural factors may not pose an intrinsic barrier to indigenous householdsbenefiting from CCTprograms, and as such, CCTs canpromote humancapital accumulation amongboth indigenous and nonindigenous households |
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| spelling | CGSpace1484452025-11-06T07:00:56Z The impact of conditional cash transfer programs on indigenous households in Latin America: Evidence from PROGRESA in Mexico Quiñones, Esteban J. Roy, Shalini education health households social protection cash transfers indigenous peoples social safety nets resilience Conditional cash transfers(CCTs) are widely used antipoverty measuresin Latin America, and manysuch programs include indigenous beneficiaries.However, concerns have been raised that the indigenous poor,who have historically been marginalized,may not benefit from CCTsas much as the nonindigenouspopulation, owing to cultural as well as geographic factors. Even so, rigorous evidenceshowing this effect is limited. We assessedthis issue in the context of PROGRESA (Programa de Educación, Salud, y Alimenación), an integrated approach to poverty alleviation in Mexico, in which over one-thirdofbeneficiaries were indigenous at the program’s inceptionin 1998. A feature of the program’s initial targetingwasthat indigenous and nonindigenous beneficiaries were drawn from geographically similar areas, minimizing the potential for geographic factors to lead to differential impacts.Despite an extensive literatureshowing positive average impacts of PROGRESAon health and education outcomes, few studieshave disaggregatedthese effects by indigenous status. Using the randomized assignment of initial programrollout, we estimatedPROGRESA’simpactson a range of health and education indicators, distinctly for indigenous and nonindigenousbeneficiaries.We foundthat, as of November 2000, PROGRESA had significant impacts on many health and education indicators among both indigenous and nonindigenous households in our sample; in addition, in aggregateacross most indicators, these impacts werevery similar. Our results indicate thatif geographic disadvantage for indigenous households can be minimized(a nontrivial endeavor),cultural factors may not pose an intrinsic barrier to indigenous householdsbenefiting from CCTprograms, and as such, CCTs canpromote humancapital accumulation amongboth indigenous and nonindigenous households 2016-02-26 2024-06-21T09:24:42Z 2024-06-21T09:24:42Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/148445 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/156096 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161274 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/156607 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/156606 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Quiñones, Esteban J. and Roy, Shalini. 2016. The impact of conditional cash transfer programs on indigenous households in Latin America: Evidence from PROGRESA in Mexico. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1511. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/148445 |
| spellingShingle | education health households social protection cash transfers indigenous peoples social safety nets resilience Quiñones, Esteban J. Roy, Shalini The impact of conditional cash transfer programs on indigenous households in Latin America: Evidence from PROGRESA in Mexico |
| title | The impact of conditional cash transfer programs on indigenous households in Latin America: Evidence from PROGRESA in Mexico |
| title_full | The impact of conditional cash transfer programs on indigenous households in Latin America: Evidence from PROGRESA in Mexico |
| title_fullStr | The impact of conditional cash transfer programs on indigenous households in Latin America: Evidence from PROGRESA in Mexico |
| title_full_unstemmed | The impact of conditional cash transfer programs on indigenous households in Latin America: Evidence from PROGRESA in Mexico |
| title_short | The impact of conditional cash transfer programs on indigenous households in Latin America: Evidence from PROGRESA in Mexico |
| title_sort | impact of conditional cash transfer programs on indigenous households in latin america evidence from progresa in mexico |
| topic | education health households social protection cash transfers indigenous peoples social safety nets resilience |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/148445 |
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