Education Choices in Mexico: Using a Structural Model and a Randomized Experiment to Evaluate PROGRESA.
In this paper, we use an economic model to analyse data from a major randomized social experiment, namely PROGRESA in Mexico, and to evaluate its impact on school participation. We show the usefulness of using experimental data to estimate a structural economic model as well as the importance of a s...
| Publicado en: | Review of Economic Studies Vol. 79; no. 1; pp. 37 - 67 |
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