Human capital

Many initiatives worldwide aim at improving financial literacy through targeted education programs, yet there is little evidence regarding their effectiveness. The authors examine here the impact of a short financial education program on teenagers in German high schools.

This paper reviews the literature studying econometric methods for the analysis of social networks. It begins by discussing identification of models of social effects using observational and experimental data, before outlining models of network formation. Finally, it discusses how one might collect data on networks, and the measurement error issues caused by sampling of networks, as well as measurement error more broadly.

We use direct evidence on credit constraints to study their importance for household consumption growth and for welfare.

Early childhood is a period of rapid growth and development, which lays the foundations for later life, but it is also a period in which children are at their most vulnerable. Poverty, poor nutrition and under-stimulating and unhygienic surroundings, which affect millions of children in developing countries, hamper and stifle child health and development.

This paper provides new estimates of the medium- and long-term impacts of Head Start on health and behavioral problems.

This paper focuses on individuals who have completed university and provides new evidence on differences in graduates’ earnings by socio-economic background, with a particular focus on whether they attended a private school.

This report focuses on trends in public sector pay and compares these with what has been happening in the private sector.

New research from CMPO, IFS and the University of Cambridge suggests families with lower socio-economic status have less access to higher performing schools than families with higher socio-economic status.

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.

Ellen Greaves stresses the value of using national pupil data to improve education research and policy.

The authors study the impact of financial education on intertemporal choice in adolescence, their findings suggesting that the effect of such educational programs is to increase comprehension and decrease bracketing in intertemporal choice.

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.