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<journal-id>0301-7036</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Problemas del desarrollo]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Prob. Des]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>0301-7036</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S0301-70362021000400133</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22201/iiec.20078951e.2021.207.69725</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Social Transfers on Human Capital Accumulation]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Un análisis costo-eficiencia de transferencias sociales en la acumulación de capital humano]]></article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Mideros]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Andrés]]></given-names>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Ecuador</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2021</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2021</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>52</volume>
<numero>207</numero>
<fpage>133</fpage>
<lpage>156</lpage>
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<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0301-70362021000400133&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0301-70362021000400133&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0301-70362021000400133&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract The paper reports on an ex-ante evaluation of the long-term effect of the Ecuadorian social transfer programme called "Bono de Desarrollo Humano (BDH)" on human capital accumulation. A dynamic cohort microsimulation model is used to analyse for cost-effectiveness of different policy scenarios. Results show that cash transfers do promote human capital accumulation but with rather small effect. Transfers targeted at critical ages are the most cost-effective to promote human capital accumulation.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen Este artículo reporta una evaluación ex-ante del efecto de largo plazo del programa de transferencias sociales ecuatoriano, "Bono de Desarrollo Humano (BDH)", en la acumulación de capital humano. Se usó una micro simulación de un modelo dinámico de cohortes para analizar su costo-eficiencia bajo diferentes escenarios de política. Los resultados muestran que las transferencias de efectivo promueven la acumulación de capital humano, aunque su efecto es pequeño. Las transferencias enfocadas a edades críticas son las que muestran mayor costo-eficiencia para promover la acumulación de capital humano.]]></p></abstract>
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