Efectos de las becas educativas del programa Oportunidades sobre la asistencia escolar: El caso de la zona urbana del noreste de México

conditional transfer programs (cct), as mexico's oportunidades, focus on three basic components: education, health and nutrition. in the former, one of its aims is to reduce truancy, which is generated in contexts of poverty by the employment of children, for this reason the economic resource given by the program seeks to increase school attendance. this study evaluated the impact of the program in reducing absence from school, using a propensity score matching. the results show that the program did not generate impacts on school absenteeism, as from before intervention were high school indicators in urban areas that were studied.