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Our goal is to promote equity by understanding the reasons for disparities in access to income support, and in this study we aim to capture levels of awareness, barriers to uptake, and benefits of participation in the EITC among low-income families with young children.
In Mexico, in collaboration with researchers at the Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica and other institutions, we found benefits of conditional cash transfer program participation for children at 3-5 years, as well as 8-10 years old.
Conditional cash transfer programs have the potential to pull families and individuals out of extreme poverty, as well as providing incentives for accessing health care services for populations that are particularly at risk.
Workers in the living wage intervention received a 350% wage increase, and were compared with workers at a matched apparel factory. Data were collected via in-person interviews at baseline and endline, which was 15-16 months after workers were initially hired at the intervention site.