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Luncheon Lecture: "Saving Lives: Social Programs and Infant Mortality Rates in Mexico"
February 19, 2008 ( 12:30PM - 01:15PM )
Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, assistant professor of political science, Stanford University.
Abstract: Over the last two decades, Mexico witnessed a shift in social policies transforming anti-poverty strategies from centralized and highly discretionary programs to decentralized and formula-based entitlements. We measure the effect of these policy changes upon the welfare of the children, moving beyond the effects of money on the provision of local public goods to assess the overall effect of social policies on Infant Mortality Rates (IMR). We argue that the process of democratization in Mexico has a decisive impact on development by saving the lives of children.