Poverty

In this article, we assess what has happened to inequality under Labour, and estimate the impact on inequality of Labour's redistributive policies.

This document reviews a number of empirical methodologies available to answering policy questions about the relationship between income and child outcomes.

Colombia's civil conflict over the last 40 years has displaced many families and individuals from their villages of origin.

In this paper we evaluate the effect of a large welfare program in rural Mexico.

In this Election Briefing Note, we assess what has happened to living standards under Labour, setting out how average incomes, income inequality and poverty have changed since 1996-97. We compare these changes with what happened under previous governments, and highlight where there have been differences between Labour's first and second terms.

In this report, we assess the short-term impact of the Colombian welfare programme Familias en Acción on consumption and its components.

In this paper we use the new Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) to look at ethnic differences in outcomes of children at birth.

In this report we estimate the impact on school enrolment of a large welfare programme in Colombia, Familias en Acción.

This Commentary provides an update on trends in poverty and inequality in Great Britain for 2005.

This note sets out what we learn about the relationship between family income and material deprivation from a panel of lone parents constructed from 5 waves of the Family and Children Survey (FACS).

This paper addresses the intergeneration transmission of education and investigates the extent to which early school leaving (at age 16) may be due to variations in permanent income, parental education levels, and shocks to income at this age.

In this Briefing Note, we will focus on the programme Familias en Acción, the conditional cash-transfer programme implemented by the Colombian government from 2001/02.

We study the determinants of child anthropometrics on a sample of poor Colombian children living in small municipalities.