  Latin America
Manuela Angelucci, Orazio Attanasio and Vincenzo Di Maro
In this paper, we estimate the effect of the Mexican conditional cash transfer programme, Oportunidades, on transfers, savings and consumption for treated households.
Paul Gertler, Harry Patrinos and Marta Rubio Codina
Article published in the Journal of Development Economics, 99(1):68-79
This presentation was given in Washington DC to World Bank economists on 28 June 2012.
Orazio Attanasio, Emla Fitzsimons, Camila Fernandez, Sally Grantham-McGregor, Costas Meghir and Marta Rubio Codina
Presentation on Early Childhood Development 25th June 2012
Despite the rapid expansion and increasing importance of private education in developing countries, very little is known about the impact of studying in private schools on educational attainment and wages. This paper contributes to fi
lling this gap by estimating the returns to private high schools in Mexico.
This is a summary of an intervention which we are investigating in an early child development project in Colombia.
These slides accompanied a presentation at an event organised by the Colombian government on 26 March 2012 in Bogota.
This paper investigates how the permanent departure of the father from the household affects children's school enrolment and work participation in rural Colombia.
Paul Gertler, Sebastian Martinez and Marta Rubio Codina
Randomised trials have helped to shape policy in the developing world. Drawing on examples, we argue that it's time the UK made better use of this important tool for evidence-based policymaking.
Rita Almeida and Pedro Carneiro
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.
In this paper we use an economic model to analyse data from a major social experiment, namely PROGRESA in Mexico, and to evaluate its impact on school participation.
Grant Miller, Diana Pinto and Marcos Vera-Hernandez
Despite current emphasis on health insurance expansions in developing countries, inefficient consumer incentives for over-use of medical care are an important counterbalancing concern.
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.
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 program implemented in rural areas in Colombia since 2002, on school enrollment and child labor.
This presentation was given at an internal seminar on the Early Childhood Development project in Colombia.
Orazio Attanasio, Luca Pellerano and Sandra Polanía Reyes
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.
Orazio Attanasio, Erich Battistin and Alice Mesnard
We study food Engel curves among the poor population targeted by a conditional cash transfer programme in Colombia.
Primary school enrolment and completion rates are almost universal in rural Mexico. In this paper, we investigate whether the primary school transfer generates positive externalities in the household.
Samuel Berlinski, Sebastian Galiani and Patrick J. McEwan
This paper looks at evidence as to whether expanding preschool education provides work incentives for mothers.
Chiara Binelli, Costas Meghir and Naercio Menezes-Filho
This paper investigates the puzzling evidence on wages and educational attainment observed in Brazil in the 1990s.
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.
Samuel Berlinski, Sebastian Galiani and Marco Manacorda
We study the effect of pre-primary education on children's subsequent school outcomes.
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.
Paul Gertler, Harry Patrinos and Marta Rubio Codina
This paper evaluates AGEs (Apoyo a la Gestion Escolar or School Management Support) and examines whether the increased parental participation that they brought about helped to create a more conducive learning environment and improve students' learning outcomes.
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.
Manuela Angelucci, Giacomi De Giorgi, Marcos Rangel and Imran Rasul
An Edepo working paper.
Samuel Berlinski and Sebastian Galiani
We provide evidence on the impact of a large-scale construction of pre-primary school facilities in Argentina.
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.
Manuela Angelucci, Giacomi De Giorgi, Marcos Rangel and Imran Rasul
Paul Gertler, Sebastian Martinez and Marta Rubio Codina
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.
Paul Gertler, Harry Patrinos and Marta Rubio Codina
Orazio Attanasio, Erich Battistin, Emla Fitzsimons, Costas Meghir, Alice Mesnard, Marcos Vera-Hernandez, et al.
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.
Orazio Attanasio and Christine Frayne
We study the prices of basic commodities that are relatively homogeneous in some rural communities in Colombia.
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.
Orazio Attanasio, Costas Meghir and Ana Santiago
In this paper we evaluate the effect of a large welfare program in rural Mexico.
In this report, we assess the short-term impact of the Colombian welfare programme Familias en Acción on consumption and its components.
Orazio Attanasio, Emla Fitzsimons and Ana Gomez
We estimate the impact on school enrolment of a large welfare programme in Colombia, Familias en Acción.
This lecture focuses on Familias en Accion, a conditional cash transfer programme in Colombia, evaluating its effects and results in relation to education, health and nutrition.
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.
Orazio Attanasio, Luis Carlos Gomez, Ana Gomez Rojas and Marcos Vera-Hernandez
We study the determinants of child anthropometrics on a sample of poor Colombian children living in small municipalities.
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.
Orazio Attanasio, Pinelopi K. Goldberg and Nina Pavncik
We investigate the effects of the drastic tariff reductions of the 1980s and 1990s in Colombia on the wage distribution.
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.
Orazio Attanasio, Costas Meghir and Ana Santiago
In this paper we evaluate the effect of a large welfare program in rural Mexico.
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.
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.
Orazio Attanasio and Miguel Székely
This paper presents evidence on the relationship between shocks to relative male wages and changes in household consumption in Mexico during the 1990s decade, which is a period characterized by high volatility.
Orazio Attanasio, Murtaza Syed and Marcos Vera-Hernandez
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.
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'.
Orazio Attanasio, Costas Meghir and Miguel Szekely
In this paper we discuss the issues involved with the evaluation of social interventions and with the attempts at 'scaling them up'.
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.
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.
Using the Progresa data from Mexico, we investigate intrahousehold decision making using a variety of outcomes.
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