This is a very nice abstract. Your substantive point is clear and
important. Depending on your audience, and certainly for our purposes,
you might highlight the methodological contribution a bit more
clearly--precisely what methods are you bringing to bear on this problem?
Also, the title could be more of a statement of the argument, rather than
a statement of the topic.
Best,
Dan
On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, Sebastian Bauhoff wrote:
Hi all,
Comments welcome.
Thanks,
Sebastian and Holger
Spillover Effects on Health Outcomes: Evidence from the Randomized
Evaluation of PROGRESA
Holger Lutz Kern and Sebastian Bauhoff
Abstract: We estimate spillover effects on health outcomes of PROGRESA, a
large-scale poverty alleviation program in Mexico. PROGRESA provides cash
incentives to eligible households if they participate in health education
and maternal and child health care. Exploiting the fact that the program
was assigned randomly across villages we find evidence for positive
spillover effects on non-eligible children aged 0-5 for objective and
subjective health measures. One year after the program began in 1998,
non-eligible children in treatment villages were on average [XX] taller,
[XX] heavier and [XX] per cent less likely to be anemic relative to
non-eligible children in control villages. They were also [XX] per cent less
likely to be reported sick. Previous evaluations have ignored these
spillover effects and hence understate the program's benefits.
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