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MARTINEZ MARTINEZ, Oscar Alfonso. Effects on School Attendance of the Oportunidades Program Scholarships: The Case of the Urban Zones at Northeast Mexico. Desarro. soc. [online]. 2012, n.69, pp.99-131. ISSN 0120-3584.

Conditional transfer programs (CCT), as Mexico's Oportunidades, focus on three basic components: education, health and nutrition. In the former, one of its aims is to reduce truancy, which is generated in contexts of poverty by the employment of children, for this reason the economic resource given by the program seeks to increase school attendance. This study evaluated the impact of the program in reducing absence from school, using a Propensity Score Matching. The results show that the program did not generate impacts on school absenteeism, as from before intervention were high school indicators in urban areas that were studied.

Palabras clave : Program evaluation; education; social policy.

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