  EducationMuch of the work at EDePo revolves around primary and secondary school choices in developing countries and how policies and programmes might affect such decisions. Much of our research goes beyond the estimation of programme impacts to consider behavioural responses to conditional cash transfer programmes (CCT); another strand considers how CCT programmes might act as a safety net in the event of the father departing from the household, and the role of risk and uncertainty in shaping education choices; another considers school quality and the returns to private education. 
Linda Richardson
Kitty Stewart
Paul Gertler, Harry Patrinos and Marta Rubio Codina
Article published in the Journal of Development Economics, 99(1):68-79
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 paper investigates how the permanent departure of the father from the household affects children's school enrolment and work participation in rural Colombia.
Pedro Carneiro, Michael Lokshin, Cristobal Ridao-Cano and Nithin Umapathi
This paper tests whether family size has a causal effect on girls' education in Mexico.
Manuela Angelucci, Imran Rasul, et al.
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 paper studies migration decisions of very poor households in an environment with a high level of violence.
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.
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.
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.
Presented at the European Economic Association conference in Milan, 27-31 August 2008.
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.
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.
Paul Gertler, Harry Patrinos and Marta Rubio Codina
An Edepo working paper.
Paul Gertler, Harry Patrinos and Marta Rubio Codina
Samuel Berlinski and Sebastian Galiani
We provide evidence on the impact of a large-scale construction of pre-primary school facilities in Argentina.
Manuela Angelucci, Giacomi De Giorgi, Marcos Rangel and Imran Rasul
This paper presents evidence on whether and how a household's behaviour is influenced by the presence and characteristics of its extended family.
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.
Ouarda Merrouche
This paper uses unique district level data on landmine contamination intensity in Cambodia combined with individual survey data to evaluate the long run cost of Cambodia's 30 years war (1970-1998) on education levels and earnings.
Paul Gertler, Harry Patrinos and Marta Rubio Codina
The question is how can policymakers best finance and allocate scarce resources to increase education levels in developing countries?
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, Costas Meghir and Ana Santiago
In this paper we evaluate the effect of a large welfare program in rural Mexico.
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.
Orazio Attanasio, Costas Meghir and Ana Santiago
In this paper we evaluate the effect of a large welfare program in rural Mexico.
We study the effects of risk and uncertainty on education and childlabour in developing countries.
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'.
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