International development

This paper models how migration both influences and responds to differences in disease prevalence between cities, regions and countries, and show how the possibility of migration away from high-prevalence areas affects long-run steady state disease prevalence.

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.

An Edepo working paper.

We provide evidence on the impact of a large-scale construction of pre-primary school facilities in Argentina.

This paper presents evidence on whether and how a household's behaviour is influenced by the presence and characteristics of its extended family.

This paper studies the impact of a conditional cash transfer programme in Colombia on the total consumption of very poor households and on its components.

In this paper we test whether poor households use cash transfers from the government to invest in income generating activities.

The paper studies the effects of Familias en Acción, a conditional cash transfer programme implemented in rural areas in Colombia in 2002, on school enrolment and child labour.

This report, in Spanish, evaluates the first wave of the survey, Familias en Acción.

This research is part of a large evaluation effort, undertaken by a consortium formed by IFS, Econometria and SEI, which has considered the effects of Familias en Acción on a variety of outcomes one year after its implementation.

We study the prices of basic commodities that are relatively homogeneous in some rural communities in Colombia.

This study assesses whether the microfinance institution SEWA Bank, India, is meeting its objective of raising its members' income.

In this report, we provide estimates of how the programme has influenced nutrition and health-related indicators for children in the short term, roughly one year after its implementation.

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.