International development

We study the transmission of risk attititudes in a unique survey of mothers and children in which both participated in an incentivised risk preference elicitation task.

Drawing on the seminal Mirrlees Review, this report sets out the basic principles of good tax design and reform, with a particular focus on the implications for middle income countries such as Turkey.

This paper presents an analysis of the welfare consequences of recent increases in food prices in Mexico using micro-level data.

It is often argued that informal labour markets in developing countries are the engine of growth because their existence allows firms to operate in an environment where wage and regulatory costs are lower

This EBRD impact brief reports on a randomised field experiment in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

We use an RCT to analyze the impacts of microcredit.

This paper analyses the impact of informality on growth and wages in developing countries.

We use an RCT to analyze the impact of microcredit on poverty reduction, child and teenage labour supply, and education in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This working paper uses a randomised controlled trial (RCT) to analyse the impact of microcredit on poverty reduction in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This paper tests the hypothesis that participation in conditional cash transfers would be associated with increasing body mass index.

Article published in the Journal of Development Economics, 99(1):68-79

The World Bank commissioned the IFS to develop a tax simulator for El Salvador, with an aim of increasing capacity for the distributional and revenue analysis of tax reforms in this country. This is the final paper of this project.

Microfinance institutions across the world are moving from group lending to individual lending. This EBRD Impact Brief presents some such evidence from a recent randomised field experiment in Mongolia.

This is a summary of an intervention which we are investigating in an early child development project in Colombia.