International development

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.

In this paper, we propose a measure of social capital based on behaviour in a public goods game.

In this paper we analyse the findings from a series of 'public good' games that were conducted between in rural and urban Colombia with mainly poor participants.

This paper studies migration decisions of very poor households in an environment with a high level of violence.