International development

This paper investigates the puzzling evidence on wages and educational attainment observed in Brazil in the 1990s.

This report provides an in-depth description of the first wave of household data collected for a randomised field experiment to measure the impact of microcredit on poverty reduction among poor rural women in Mongolia.

This project analyses the findings from a series of "public goods" games that were conducted in the spring and winter of 2006 in 103 municipalities in rural and urban Colombia.

This paper models how migration both influences and responds to differences in disease prevalence between cities, regions and countries, and show how the possibility of migration away from high-prevalence areas affects long-run steady state disease prevalence.

We study the effect of pre-primary education on children's subsequent school outcomes.

In this paper we propose a measure of social capital based on the behaviour in a public good game.

This paper evaluates the impact of a randomized training program for disadvantaged youth introduced in Colombia in 2005 on the employment and earnings of trainees.

An Edepo working paper.

We provide evidence on the impact of a large-scale construction of pre-primary school facilities in Argentina.

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.

The paper studies the effects of Familias en Acción, a conditional cash transfer programme implemented in rural areas in Colombia in 2002, on school enrolment and child labour.

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

This research is part of a large evaluation effort, undertaken by a consortium formed by IFS, Econometria and SEI, which has considered the effects of Familias en Acción on a variety of outcomes one year after its implementation.

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