Professor Orazio Attanasio

The authors study a Conditional Cash Transfer programme in which the cash transfers to the mother only depend on the fulfillment of the national preventive visit schedule by her children born before she registered in the programme.

Early childhood development in the Slums of Cuttack , Odisha, India Baseline report

This article summarises the content of a 1928 paper authored by Frank Ramsey and discusses its relationship to subsequent developments in economics.

The socio-economic gradient of child development: cross-sectional evidence from children 6-42 months in Bogota

In this paper the authors examine the distributional and efficiency case for VAT rate differentiation in Mexico, and analyse the effects of the 2010 reforms to Mexico’s tax system, making use of a tax micro-simulation model, MEXTAX.

The authors examine the channels through which a randomized early childhood intervention in Colombia led to significant gains in cognitive and socio-emotional skills among a sample of disadvantaged children.

Human capital and inequality in the United Kingdom

The authors present evidence from a randomised field experiment in rural Mongolia to assess the poverty impacts of a joint-liability microcredit program targeted at women.

This paper evaluates the large scale pilot of an innovative and major welfare intervention in Colombia, which combines homes visits by trained social workers to households in extreme poverty with preferential access to social programs.

The authors characterize the time-series properties of group-level consumption, income, and interest rates using microdata.

The objective of this paper is to assess the effectiveness of an integrated early child development intervention, combining stimulation and micronutrient supplementation and delivered on a large scale in Colombia, for children’s development, growth, and hemoglobin levels.

The authors aim to determine the timing and size of the cognitive deficit associated with poverty in the first 5 years of life and to examine the role of parental characteristics, pre- and postnatal growth, and stimulation in the home in Bangladeshi children.

The current genetic makeup of Latin America has been shaped by a history of extensive admixture between Africans, Europeans and Native Americans, a process taking place within the context of extensive geographic and social stratification.

This paper considers the income generated by cow or buffalo in the district of Anantapur, India and shows how drought affects returns.

We study the socio-economic gradient of child development on a representative sample of low- and middle-income children aged 6-42 months in Bogota, using the Bayley Scales of Infant Development, a high quality test based on direct observation of the child’s abilities.