Publications
Reports and briefing notesVillage economies and the structure of extended family networks
04 Sep 2007, Report Summaries
 More information The short-term impact of a conditional cash subsidy on child health and nutrition in Colombia
13 Dec 2005, Report Summaries
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.
More information The impact of a conditional education subsidy on school enrolment in Colombia
31 Mar 2005, Report Summaries
We estimate the impact on school enrolment of a large welfare programme in Colombia, Familias en Acción.
More information How effective are conditional cash transfers? Evidence from Colombia
12 Jan 2005, IFS Briefing Notes, 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.
More information Baseline report on the evaluation of Familias en Acción
07 Apr 2004, IFS Reports
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.
More information Early evaluation of a new nutrition and education programme in Colombia
01 Jan 2004, IFS Briefing Notes, 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.
More information Working papersBuilding trust? conditional cash transfers and social capital
04 Apr 2008, IFS Working Papers, EWP08/02
In this paper we propose a measure of social capital based on the behaviour in a public good game.
More information Training disadvantaged youth in Latin America: evidence from a randomized trial
01 Mar 2008, IFS Working Papers, EWP08/01
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.
More information What would you do? An investigation of stated-response data
01 Aug 2007, IFS Working Papers, EWP07/01
An Edepo working paper.
More information Child education and work choices in the presence of a conditional cash transfer programme in rural Colombia
10 Jul 2006, IFS Working Papers, W06/13
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.
More information Child education and work choices in the presence of a conditional cash transfer programme in rural Colombia
17 Jan 2006, IFS Working Papers, 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.
More information Education choices in Mexico: using a structural model and a randomised experiment to evaluate Progresa
26 Apr 2005, IFS Working Papers, EWP05/01
In this paper we evaluate the effect of a large welfare program in rural Mexico.
More information Medium- and long run effects of nutrition and child care: evaluation of a community nursery programme in rural Colombia
15 Nov 2004, IFS Working Papers, 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.
More information Aid and Migration: an analysis of the impact of Progresa on the timing and size of labour migration
01 Jul 2004, IFS Working Papers, EWP04/05
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.
More information Education choices in Mexico: using a structural model and a randomized experiment to evaluate PROGRESA
01 Jun 2004, IFS Working Papers, EWP04/04
In this paper we evaluate the effect of a large welfare program in rural Mexico.
More information Child health in rural Colombia: determinants and policy interventions
01 May 2004, IFS Working Papers, EWP04/02
In this paper we study the determinants of child anthropometrics on a sample of poor Colombianchildren living in small municipalities.
More information The effects of risk on education in Indonesia
30 Apr 2004, IFS Working Papers, EWP04/01
We study the effects of risk and uncertainty on education and childlabour in developing countries.
More information Using randomized experiments and structural models for 'scaling up': evidence from the PROGRESA evaluation
10 May 2003, IFS Working Papers, EWP04/03
In this paper we discuss the issues involved with the evaluation of social interventions and with the attempts at 'scaling them up'.
More information Land Allocation in Vietnam's Agrarian Transition; Part 2: Introducing a land market
02 May 2003, IFS Working Papers, EWP03/04
Thepaper studies land-market adjustment in the wake of Vietnam’s reforms aiming toestablish a free market in land-use rights following de-collectivization.
More information Land Allocation in Vietnam's Agrarian Transition; Part 1: Breaking up the Collective Farms
01 May 2003, IFS Working Papers, EWP03/03
We assess the realized land allocation against explicit counter-factuals, including theallocation implied by a competitive market-based privatization.
More information Wage shocks and consumption variability in Mexico during the 1990s
15 Apr 2003, IFS Working Papers, EWP03/02
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.
More information Trade reforms and wage inequality in Colombia
12 Apr 2003, IFS Working Papers, EWP03/01
We investigate the effects of the drastic tariff reductions of the 1980s and 1990s in Colombia onthe wage distribution.
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