Adhvaryu, Achyuta. <br/><br/>
Helping Children Catch Up:  Early Life Shocks and the PROGRESA Experiment / 
Achyuta Adhvaryu, Anant Nyshadham, Teresa Molina, Jorge Tamayo. 
 - Cambridge, Mass.  National Bureau of Economic Research  2018. 
 - 1 online resource:  illustrations (black and white); 
 - NBER working paper series  no. w24848 .
 - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research)  no. w24848. .
<br/><br/> July 2018. 
<br/><br/> Can investing in children who faced adverse events in early childhood help them catch up? We answer this question using two orthogonal sources of variation - resource availability at birth (local rainfall) and cash incentives for school enrollment - to identify the interaction between early endowments and investments in children. We find that adverse rainfall in the year of birth decreases grade attainment, post-secondary enrollment, and employment outcomes. But children whose families were randomized to receive conditional cash transfers experienced a much smaller decline: each additional year of program exposure during childhood mitigated more than 20 percent of early disadvantage. 
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