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Reports and briefing notes

13 December 2005
Orazio Attanasio, Luis Carlos Gómez, Patricia Heredia and Marcos Vera-Hernandez
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.
31 March 2005
We estimate the impact on school enrolment of a large welfare programme in Colombia, Familias en Acción.
12 January 2005
BN54
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.
07 April 2004
This report describes the survey that was carried out in 122 communities in rural Colombia bythe consortium formed by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Econometria and SEI as the baselinefor the impact evaluation of Familias en Acción, a programme to foster the accumulation ofhuman capital in rural Colombia, run by the Colombian government.
05 March 2004
01 March 2004
01 January 2004
BN44
This note outlines the preliminary findings of the evaluation of a welfare programme in Colombia, Familias en Accíon. The programme aims to foster nutritional and educational development for the children of poor families in rural and urban communities, and the evaluation will use data collected from treatment and control areas to discover what methods are effective and how they work. In this note, we describe what the data show about the population and what the preliminary findings indicate about the efficacy of the programme.

Working papers

01 October 2009
W09/20
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.
29 September 2009
W09/19
This paper studies migration decisions of very poor households in an environment with a high level of violence.
22 July 2009
W09/15
We study food Engel curves among the poor population targeted by a conditional cash transfer programme in Colombia.
23 January 2009
W09/05
Samuel Berlinski, Sebastian Galiani and Patrick J. McEwan
This paper looks at evidence as to whether expanding preschool education provides work incentives for mothers.
04 November 2008
W08/11
This paper investigates how the permanent departure of the head from the household, mainly due to death or divorce, affects children's school enrolment and work participation in rural Colombia.
01 September 2008
EWP08/03
This project analyses the findings from a series of "public goods" games that were conducted in the spring and winter of 2006 in 103 municipalities in rural and urban Colombia.
04 April 2008
EWP08/02
Orazio Attanasio, Luca Pellerano and Sandra Polania
In this paper we propose a measure of social capital based on the behaviour in a public good game.
01 March 2008
EWP08/01
Orazio Attanasio, Adriana Kugler and Costas Meghir
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.
10 July 2006
W06/13
Orazio Attanasio, Emla Fitzsimons, Ana Gomez, Martha Isabel Gutiérrez, Costas Meghir and Alice Mesnard
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.
17 January 2006
W06/01
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.
26 April 2005
EWP05/01
In this paper we evaluate the effect of a large welfare program in rural Mexico.
15 November 2004
EWP04/06
In this paper we evaluate the effect of a large nutrition programme in rural Colombia on children nutritional status, school achievement and female labour supply.
01 July 2004
EWP04/05
Manuela Angelucci
This paper models the short and medium-run impact of aid on migration, con-sidering alternatively the effect of unconditional and conditional cash transfers to financially constrained households.
01 June 2004
EWP04/04
In this paper we evaluate the effect of a large welfare program in rural Mexico.
01 May 2004
EWP04/02
Orazio Attanasio, Luiz Carlos Gomez, Ana Gomez and Marcos Vera-Hernandez
In this paper we study the determinants of child anthropometrics on a sample of poor Colombianchildren living in small municipalities.
30 April 2004
EWP04/01
We study the effects of risk and uncertainty on education and childlabour in developing countries.
10 May 2003
EWP04/03
Orazio Attanasio, Costas Meghir and Miguel Székely
In this paper we discuss the issues involved with the evaluation of social interventions and with the attempts at 'scaling them up'.
02 May 2003
EWP03/04
Martin Ravallion and Dominique van de Walle
Thepaper studies land-market adjustment in the wake of Vietnam's reforms aiming toestablish a free market in land-use rights following de-collectivization.
01 May 2003
EWP03/03
Martin Ravallion and Dominique can de Walle
We assess the realized land allocation against explicit counter-factuals, including theallocation implied by a competitive market-based privatization.
15 April 2003
EWP03/02
Orazio Attanasio and Miguel Székely
This paper presents evidence on the relationship between shocks torelative male wages, and changes in household consumption in Mexico during the1990s decade, which is a period characterized by high volatility.
12 April 2003
EWP03/01
Orazio Attanasio, Pinelopi K. Goldberg and Nina Pavcnik
We investigate the effects of the drastic tariff reductions of the 1980s and 1990s in Colombia onthe wage distribution.