Quality of Life for Beneficiaries of an Unconditional Transfer Education Program in Mexico City

Abstract

Education allows achieving higher well-being and improves Quality of Life (QoL), but economic distress often leads to school dropout. Since 2007, the Mexico City Government established the Guaranteed Education Program in order prevent dropout of those students whom lost financial support due to parental death or total and permanent impairment. In this paper, through a stratified sample of beneficiaries (1,147 children and 806 adults), we focus on their perception about QoL dimensions. Although our findings show that perception improves upon receiving the benefits of the Program for most dimensions, we suggest that programs evaluations should consider the adapting perceptions process according to the hedonic framework analysis.