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.

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 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.

Using the Progresa data from Mexico, we investigate intrahousehold decision making using a variety of outcomes.