International development

This paper evaluates the impact of a randomized training program for disadvantaged youth introduced in Colombia in 2005.

This study aims to estimate the impact of the 2008 Chilean pension reform on Chilean labour market participation.

FINISH - Financial Inclusion Improves Sanitation and Health - is a joint undertaking of a wide range of actors that came together to address the challenges of micro finance, insurance and sanitation and health.

FINISH - Financial Inclusion Improves Sanitation and Health - is a joint undertaking of a wide range of actors that came together to address the challenges of micro finance, insurance and sanitation and health.

This is the final paper of a study aimed at building capacity for the distributional analysis of tax reforms in Mexico and other similar middle‐income countries.

This paper lays out the methodological issues involved in finding the distributional impact of the tax changes in Mexica and describes the approach the authors will take in their analysis.

This paper tests whether family size has a causal effect on girls' education in Mexico.

We examine the effect of large cash transfers on the consumption of food by poor households in rural Mexico.

Despite current emphasis on health insurance expansions in developing countries, inefficient consumer incentives for over-use of medical care are an important counterbalancing concern.

In this paper we try to raise caution against the consequences of the overwhelming drive for microfinance institutions to become financially self-sustainable-more often than not pushed into this by international organizations.

We present evidence on whether and how a household's behavior is influenced by the presence and characteristics of its extended family.

The period from 2003 to the summer of 2008 saw significant and sustained increases in global food prices, especially for staple goods such as maize, rice and wheat.

This is an update in February 2010 on the progress of the FINISH project in India.

This report provides a description of the first wave of household data collected for a randomised field experiment in Bosnia.

The paper studies the effects of Familias en Acción, a conditional cash transfer program implemented in rural areas in Colombia since 2002, on school enrollment and child labor.