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Essays in Development Economics
Essays in Development Economics
Essays in Development Economics

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자료유형  
 학위논문 서양
최종처리일시  
20250211151939
ISBN  
9798382788579
DDC  
320
저자명  
Flores-Peregrina, Diana.
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  
Economic activities
키워드  
Neighbor-matching analyses
키워드  
Commercial sectors
키워드  
Obesity
기타저자  
University of California, Los Angeles Economics 0246
기본자료저록  
Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-12A.
전자적 위치 및 접속  
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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.
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■653    ▼aCommercial  sectors
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