A cost-effectiveness analysis of demand- and supply-side education interventions: the case of PROGRESA in Mexico

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dc.creatorCoady, David
dc.creatorParker, Susan W.
dc.date2004-08
dc.date2024-10-24T12:51:20Z
dc.date2024-10-24T12:51:20Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:35:29Z
dc.descriptionThe paper is concerned with the issue of the most cost‐effective way of improving access to education for poor households in developing countries. The authors consider two alternatives: extensive expansion of the school system (i.e., bringing education to the poor), and subsidizing investment in education by the poor (i.e., bringing the poor to the education system). To this end, the authors evaluate PROGRESA, a large poverty‐alleviation program recently introduced in Mexico, which subsidizes education. Using double‐difference regression estimators on data collected before and after the program for randomly selected “control” and “treatment” households, the relative impacts of the demand‐ and supply‐side program components are estimated. Combining these estimates with cost information, it is found that the demand‐side subsidies are substantially more cost‐effective than supply‐side expansions.
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/157680
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/108767
dc.languageen
dc.publisherWiley
dc.rightsLimited Access
dc.sourceCoady, David; Parker, Susan W. 2004. A cost-effectiveness analysis of demand- and supply-side education interventions: the case of PROGRESA in Mexico. Review of Development Economics 8(3): 440-451. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9361.2004.00244.x
dc.subjectaid programmes
dc.subjecteducation
dc.subjectinvestment
dc.subjectpoverty alleviation
dc.subjectsubsidies
dc.subjectimpact assessment
dc.titleA cost-effectiveness analysis of demand- and supply-side education interventions: the case of PROGRESA in Mexico
dc.typeJournal Article

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