A Poverty Alleviation Program and Birthweight
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Using conditional and unconditional quantile regressions this paper finds that the Mexican conditional cash transfer program PROGRESA Oportunidades has had a positive but distributionally regressive effect on the birthweight of babies born into enrolled households. The program impact varies from 135 grams on birthweights at the 20th percentile of the conditional distribution to 207 grams on birthweights at the 80th percentile. Program impacts on the respective unconditional quantiles are very similar. Furthermore, maternal smoking decreases birthweights at the 20th percentile of the conditional distribution by almost half a kilogram. This effect is not picked up by least squares regression estimates.
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