Impact of the uruguayan conditional cash transfer program

Cuadernos de Economia - Latin American Journal of Economics

Volumn 46, Issue 134, 2009, Pages 243-271

  Borraz, Fernando ^a   González, Nicolás ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE MONTEVIDEO   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Conditional cash transfer program; Propensity score matching; Targeting method

Indexed keywords

EID: 75349108104     PISSN: 07160046     EISSN: 07176821     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4067/S0717-68212009000200006     Document Type: Article

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