Effect of a conditional cash transference program on food insecurity in Mexican households: 2012-2016.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To estimate the effects of the social inclusion programme PROSPERA on food insecurity (FI) in Mexican households during 2012 and 2016.

Design

Quasi-experimental study using cross-sectional data from 2012 to 2016 National Household Income and Expenditure Survey - Socioeconomic Conditions Module (in Spanish, ENIGH-MCS).

Setting

Data were used from a 2012 sample of 56 888 Mexican households (representative of 31 206 819 households) and a 2016 sample of 70 263 Mexican households (representative of 33 445 353 households). Severity of FI was estimated with the Mexican Food Security Scale (in Spanish, EMSA). The statistical analysis estimated a differences in differences (DD) model weighted by propensity score to compare program beneficiary and non-beneficiary hous

SUBMITTER: Saldivar-Frausto M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9991821 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature