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Essays in Development Economics
Essays in Development Economics
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20250211151939
- ISBN
- 9798382788579
- DDC
- 320
- 서명/저자
- Essays in Development Economics
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : University of California, Los Angeles, 2024
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
- 형태사항
- 191 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-12, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Bailey, Martha Jane.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2024.
- 초록/해제
- 요약This dissertation evaluates the effectiveness of public policies that aim to improve development. In the first chapter, I examine the impact of Progresa program on urban areas and children's health measures in Mexico. Using a differences-in-differences design by a locality's first year of enrollment and the children's age at first exposure to treatment, I estimate the effects of receiving one additional year of treatment during early adolescence. My findings corroborate the RCT's positive impacts on children's height but also underscore some unintended effects of the program on adolescent's health, such as an increase in the prevalence of overweight and obesity, particularly among girls.The second chapter studies the effects of Progresa's cash transfer (CT) intervention on rural children's health outcomes in Mexico. I decompose these effects by conditionality, exploiting a discontinuity in the minimum eligible age for receiving the education CT component. Conditional on family structure and birth order, I estimate the average treatment effect on the treated (ATT) of receiving a higher CT during early childhood. My results show an increase of 0.13 SD in standardized height-by-age (z-scores) for children who received earlier the education CT -though not statistically significant. While my estimates are imprecise, their magnitude is consistent with previous literature evaluating the effects of Progresa on children's height.The third chapter documents that municipalities in central Mexico closer in the past to an agricultural estate (hacienda) are associated with higher literacy and lower poverty throughout the 20th century than municipalities similar in other respects but farther away from a hacienda. The results are robust to various specifications, neighbor-matching analyses, and a placebo-type test. The complementarities between late-colonial haciendas in central Mexico and mining and trade appear to have set municipalities close to a hacienda on a distinct development path. The evidence points to local scale economies in hacienda locations that coordinated new investments away from agriculture and toward the latest industrial and commercial sectors. My findings highlight the role of landed estates as centers linking rural economic activity to the main colonial economic activities.
- 일반주제명
- Public policy
- 키워드
- Cash transfer
- 키워드
- Obesity
- 기타저자
- University of California, Los Angeles Economics 0246
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-12A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■520 ▼aThis dissertation evaluates the effectiveness of public policies that aim to improve development. In the first chapter, I examine the impact of Progresa program on urban areas and children's health measures in Mexico. Using a differences-in-differences design by a locality's first year of enrollment and the children's age at first exposure to treatment, I estimate the effects of receiving one additional year of treatment during early adolescence. My findings corroborate the RCT's positive impacts on children's height but also underscore some unintended effects of the program on adolescent's health, such as an increase in the prevalence of overweight and obesity, particularly among girls.The second chapter studies the effects of Progresa's cash transfer (CT) intervention on rural children's health outcomes in Mexico. I decompose these effects by conditionality, exploiting a discontinuity in the minimum eligible age for receiving the education CT component. Conditional on family structure and birth order, I estimate the average treatment effect on the treated (ATT) of receiving a higher CT during early childhood. My results show an increase of 0.13 SD in standardized height-by-age (z-scores) for children who received earlier the education CT -though not statistically significant. While my estimates are imprecise, their magnitude is consistent with previous literature evaluating the effects of Progresa on children's height.The third chapter documents that municipalities in central Mexico closer in the past to an agricultural estate (hacienda) are associated with higher literacy and lower poverty throughout the 20th century than municipalities similar in other respects but farther away from a hacienda. The results are robust to various specifications, neighbor-matching analyses, and a placebo-type test. The complementarities between late-colonial haciendas in central Mexico and mining and trade appear to have set municipalities close to a hacienda on a distinct development path. The evidence points to local scale economies in hacienda locations that coordinated new investments away from agriculture and toward the latest industrial and commercial sectors. My findings highlight the role of landed estates as centers linking rural economic activity to the main colonial economic activities.
■590 ▼aSchool code: 0031.
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■793 ▼aEnglish
■85640▼uhttp://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T17162159▼nKERIS▼z이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다.


