Poverty

This Commentary looks at the inflation experience (based on the RPI) for different groups of households, focusing in particular on pensioner households.

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

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.

The objective of this study was to assess whether incident mobility disability and neighbourhood deprivation in older people are associated independent of the effects of individual socio-economic status, health behaviours and health status.

In this Commentary, we assess the changes to average incomes, inequality and poverty that have occurred under the first 10 years of the Labour government.

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.

The objectives were to assess the relationship between cognitive function, socioeconomic status, and neighborhood deprivation.