Low and middle income countries

This paper presents evidence on whether and how a household's behaviour is influenced by the presence and characteristics of its extended family.

This paper studies the impact of a conditional cash transfer programme in Colombia on the total consumption of very poor households and on its components.

In this paper we test whether poor households use cash transfers from the government to invest in income generating activities.

This report, in Spanish, evaluates the first wave of the survey, Familias en Acción.

We study the prices of basic commodities that are relatively homogeneous in some rural communities in Colombia.

This study assesses whether the microfinance institution SEWA Bank, India, is meeting its objective of raising its members' income.

In this report, we provide estimates of how the programme has influenced nutrition and health-related indicators for children in the short term, roughly one year after its implementation.

We study the determinants of child anthropometrics on a sample of poor Colombian children living in small municipalities.

In this paper we study the determinants of child anthropometrics on a sample of poor Colombianchildren living in small municipalities.

We study the effects of risk and uncertainty on education and childlabour in developing countries.

This note outlines the preliminary findings of the evaluation of a welfare programme in Colombia, Familias en Accíon. The programme aims to foster nutritional and educational development for the children of poor families in rural and urban communities, and the evaluation will use data collected from treatment and control areas to discover what methods are effective and how they work. In this note, we describe what the data show about the population and what the preliminary findings indicate about the efficacy of the programme.

This paper presents evidence on the relationship between shocks torelative male wages, and changes in household consumption in Mexico during the1990s decade, which is a period characterized by high volatility.

Using the Progresa data from Mexico, we investigate intrahousehold decision making using a variety of outcomes.