Efectos de Familias en Acción sobre la calidad de la oferta educativa

Abstract

Familias en Acción has had a positive impact on the use of educational and health services; nonetheless the results on educational achievement are less clear. This study evaluates the way in which the educational supply has adjusted to the implementation of the program, which can be an explanation for the scarce advance on this regard. Through a difference-in-differences matching estimator I evaluate the impact of the program on the supply of educational institutions according to the school hours and educational level they offer, congestion and human resources. The results indicate that the educational equilibrium in the treated municipalities has deteriorated because there has not been a corresponding investment in educational supply. The relation between Conditional Cash Transfers and supply conditions should be analyzed with greater depth in order to achieve advances in human capital formation.