Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/129958 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Working Papers No. 2015-09
Publisher: 
Banco de México, Ciudad de México
Abstract: 
This paper studies whether the increase in government transfers, induced by an old-age pension program for individuals age 70 and older in Mexico, affects co-residing children's school enrollment, using a regression discontinuity analysis. Results suggest that while household composition and other household-level characteristics do not change significantly at the cutoff age for program eligibility, co-residing children's school enrollment increases significantly. This suggests that public resources for older adults might generate benefits for other age groups. An additional finding is that the increase in school enrollment takes places mostly at the program eligibility cutoff and not before. Given that the program transfer is known and potentially anticipated by individuals who are only a few years away from being eligible, this suggests that households might have credit constraints.
Subjects: 
government transfers
school enrollment
JEL: 
J14
I25
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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