Seminar: Do conditional cash transfers improve economic outcomes in the next generation?
The Centre for Health Economics at Monash Business School invites you to a research webinar titled ‘Do conditional cash transfers improve economic outcomes in the next generation?’ presented by Associate Professor Tom S. Vogl from the University of California San Diego.
Conditional cash transfer programs have spread to over 80 countries in the past two decades, but little is known about their long-term effects. We estimate the impact of childhood exposure to the Mexican program Progresa by leveraging the age structure of benefits and geographic variation in early program penetration nationwide. Childhood exposure improves educational attainment, geographic mobility, labor market performance, and household economic outcomes in early adulthood. Schooling increases by 1.3 grades for both sexes, while labor market impacts are more pronounced for women, amounting to one-quarter of their labor force participation rate and half of their average labor income.
Tom works in the areas of health, development and political economy. He has published extensively in top journals including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economic Studies, the American Economic Review, and AEJ: Applied Economics,among others. He is currently also serving as the Deputy Editor of Demography and as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Human Resources.
CHE seminar series
At the Centre for Health Economics, we are working on running as many of our seminars as possible online while COVID-19 remains an obstacle to getting together. As we will be working with experts and colleagues in other parts of the world there will be some movement in the times and days that seminars run to take into account different time zones and availabilities. If you would like to be on our seminar email list, please be directly in contact by email to shannon.stanwell@monash.edu.
Hope to see you there!
Event Details
- Date:
- 12 August 2020 at 9:00 am – 10:00 am
- Venue:
- This seminar will take place via Zoom - please email shannon.stanwell@monash.edu to register
- Categories:
- Health Economics
Description
The Centre for Health Economics at Monash Business School invites you to a research webinar titled ‘Do conditional cash transfers improve economic outcomes in the next generation?’ presented by Associate Professor Tom S. Vogl from the University of California San Diego.
Conditional cash transfer programs have spread to over 80 countries in the past two decades, but little is known about their long-term effects. We estimate the impact of childhood exposure to the Mexican program Progresa by leveraging the age structure of benefits and geographic variation in early program penetration nationwide. Childhood exposure improves educational attainment, geographic mobility, labor market performance, and household economic outcomes in early adulthood. Schooling increases by 1.3 grades for both sexes, while labor market impacts are more pronounced for women, amounting to one-quarter of their labor force participation rate and half of their average labor income.
Tom works in the areas of health, development and political economy. He has published extensively in top journals including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economic Studies, the American Economic Review, and AEJ: Applied Economics,among others. He is currently also serving as the Deputy Editor of Demography and as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Human Resources.
CHE seminar series
At the Centre for Health Economics, we are working on running as many of our seminars as possible online while COVID-19 remains an obstacle to getting together. As we will be working with experts and colleagues in other parts of the world there will be some movement in the times and days that seminars run to take into account different time zones and availabilities. If you would like to be on our seminar email list, please be directly in contact by email to shannon.stanwell@monash.edu.
Hope to see you there!