Labour supply and workforce

We examine the impact of a long-term programme designed to raise non-cognitive skills of children and adolescents in slums in Bombay. We use a cross-cutting design with two comparison groups of peers for young adults who have attended the programme until leaving high school to analyse whether, compared to those from a similar environment and background, enrolment in the programme demonstrably raises such skills. We find evidence of substantial impacts on both self-esteem and self-efficacy (of about one standard deviation), as well as evidence of a smaller impact on life evaluation and aspirations.

This article measures the positive effect of a social intervention on individual willingness to cooperate and relates cooperation with traditional measures of social capital.

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.

In this paper the authors use a randomised experiment to analyse the impact of a school grants program in Senegal, which decentralised a portion of the country's education budget.

The authors develop an equilibrium lifecycle model of education, marriage and labor supply and consumption in a transferable utility context. The model is estimated using the British HPS.

This evaluation report, produced as part of the Oxfam Effectiveness Reviews Series 2013/14, was co-authored by Bet Caeyers of the IFS Centre for the Evaluation of Development Policies.

This evaluation report, produced as part of the Oxfam Effectiveness Reviews Series 2013/14, was co-authored by Bet Caeyers of the IFS Centre for the Evaluation of Development Policies.

This evaluation report, produced as part of the Oxfam Effectiveness Reviews Series 2013/14, was co-authored by Bet Caeyers of the IFS Centre for the Evaluation of Development Policies.

A model of labour supply is developed in which individuals face restrictions on hours choices. Observed hours reflect both the distribution of preferences and the distribution of offers.

This paper was presented at a workshop on 'Expenditure-based consolidation: experiences and outcomes' organised by the European Commission Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN) in Brussels on 20 January 2015.