10-year effect of Oportunidades, Mexico's conditional cash transfer programme, on child growth, cognition, language, and behaviour: a longitudinal follow-up study
The LancetPublished 5 November 2009
Lia C. H. Fernald, Paul Gertler, Lynnette M. Neufeld
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An additional 18 months in the Oportunidades programme has independent beneficial effects other than money, especially for women with no formal education, adding to existing evidence for interventions in early childhood.
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Mexican Ministry of Social Development and the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development.
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