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.

We estimate the impact on school enrolment of a large welfare programme in Colombia, Familias en Acción.

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.

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.

This is the first wave evaluation report of Familias en Acción, a conditional cash transfer programme.

This is the baseline evaluation report of Familias en Acción, a conditional cash transfer programme.

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.

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.

We study food Engel curves among the poor population targeted by a conditional cash transfer programme in Colombia.

This paper looks at evidence as to whether expanding preschool education provides work incentives for mothers.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

In this paper we evaluate the effect of a large welfare program in rural Mexico.

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.

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.

In this paper we evaluate the effect of a large welfare program in rural Mexico.

In this paper we study the determinants of child anthropometrics on a sample of poor Colombianchildren living in small municipalities.

We study the effects of risk and uncertainty on education and childlabour in developing countries.

In this paper we discuss the issues involved with the evaluation of social interventions and with the attempts at 'scaling them up'.

Thepaper studies land-market adjustment in the wake of Vietnam's reforms aiming toestablish a free market in land-use rights following de-collectivization.

We assess the realized land allocation against explicit counter-factuals, including theallocation implied by a competitive market-based privatization.

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.

We investigate the effects of the drastic tariff reductions of the 1980s and 1990s in Colombia onthe wage distribution.