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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812018503321

Autore

Bornhorst Fabian

Titolo

How Good Are Ex Ante Program Evaluation Techniques? The Case of School Enrollment in PROGRESA / / Fabian Bornhorst

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2009

ISBN

1-4623-3155-6

1-4518-7334-4

9786612843976

1-4527-3392-9

1-282-84397-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

35 p. : ill

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Disciplina

339.4;339.46

Soggetti

School attendance - Mexico - Evaluation - Econometric models

Economic assistance, Domestic - Mexico - Evaluation - Econometric models

Poor - Mexico - Evaluation - Econometric models

Labor

Macroeconomics

Demography

Education: General

Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General

Labor Economics: General

Aggregate Factor Income Distribution

Economics of the Elderly

Economics of the Handicapped

Non-labor Market Discrimination

Education

Labour

income economics

Population & demography

Wages

Income

Aging

Labor economics

Population aging

Mexico



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"September 2009."

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- I. Introduction -- II. Ex Ante Evaluation: Theory -- A. A Model of Occupational Choice -- B. Estimation and Identification -- C. Impact Simulation -- III. Ex Ante Evaluation: Results -- A. Estimation of the Earnings Vector -- B. Estimation of the Choice Model -- C. Impact Simulation -- IV. The Benchmark: Ex post Analysis -- A. Pre-Program Differences -- B. Difference Estimation -- V. Comparison of Results and Discussion -- VI. Concluding Remarks -- VII. References -- VIII. Appendix -- A. Key Elements of PROGRESA -- B. Data Description -- C. Method for Drawing Choice-consistent Residuals -- D. Bootstrap Mechanism -- Tables -- 1: Weekly Earnings and Per Capita Household Income -- 2: Reported Status -- 3: Sample Means -- 4: Estimation of Earnings Equation -- 5: Actual and Imputed Earnings -- 6: Estimation of the Multinomial Logit Model -- 7: Accuracy of Model Prediction (K=1) -- 8: Estimation of Structural Parameters (K=1) -- 9: Accuracy of Model Prediction (K=0.5) -- 10: PROGRESA Transfer Scheme -- 11: Estimated Transition Matrix -- 12: Pre-Program Differences: Boys -- 13: Pre-Program Differences: Girls -- 14: Difference Estimator: Boys -- 15: Difference Estimator: Girls -- 16: Simulation, D and DD Estimates, and Sensitivity to K -- 17: Transition to Secondary School -- Figures -- 1: Enrollment Ratio: Actual Effect of PROGRESA, D and DD Estimator -- 2: Simulated effect and D estimate.

Sommario/riassunto

This paper evaluates a microsimulation technique by comparing the simulated outcome of a program with its actual effect. The ex ante evaluation is carried out for a conditional cash transfer program, where poor households were given money if the children attended school. A model of occupational choice is used to simulate the expected impact of the program. The results suggest that the transfer would indeed increase school attendance and do more so among girls than boys. While the simulated effect tends to be larger than the actual effect, the latter lies within bootstrapped confidence intervals of the simulation.