PROGRESA
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Rolling back Progresa: What happened when Mexico’s landmark cash transfer programme ended?
The sudden rollback of Mexico’s landmark conditional cash transfer programme—Prospera, formerly Progresa—affected boys’ educational outcomes disproportionately, offering lessons for policy retrenchment worldwide.
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The relationship between labour market conditions and policy effects: Evidence from Mexico’s PROGRESA
A conditional cash transfer programme was less effective in regions with more exposure to export-manufacturing jobs
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The impact of Mexico’s Progresa programme twenty years on
The ground-breaking conditional cash transfer programme shows long-term benefits to education, income, geographic mobility and family formation
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Lessons from Mexico’s poverty reduction programme
Why has the success of Mexico’s poverty reduction programme not been matched by similar programmes in other countries?
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Women’s empowerment and development: The family connection
Female empowerment is associated with economic development, but cash transfers targeted at women may have unintended consequences