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The impact of Oportunidades on human capital and income distribution: A top-down/bottom-up approach

In an effort to inform social policy in Mexico, this paper analyzes the effects of a major social program on school attendance and household income distribution, accounting for its partial and general equilibrium effects. Linking a microeconometric simulation model and a general equilibrium model in...

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Main Authors: Debowicz, Darío, Golan, Jennifer
Format: Artículo preliminar
Language:Inglés
Published: International Food Policy Research Institute 2013
Subjects:
computable general equilibrium models
models
child labour
income distribution
poverty
social policies
public policies
time use patterns
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153474
Summary:In an effort to inform social policy in Mexico, this paper analyzes the effects of a major social program on school attendance and household income distribution, accounting for its partial and general equilibrium effects. Linking a microeconometric simulation model and a general equilibrium model in a bidirectional way, the paper explicitly takes spillover effects of the Oportunidades conditional cash transfer program into account. Our results suggest that partial equilibrium analysis alone may underestimate the distributional effects of the program.

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