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Development economics
Research in this area at IFS is committed to identifying success and failures in interventions and to promoting best practice in evaluating and conducting interventions. In particular, the Centre will be a focal point for research on the impact of specific interventions in health, nutrition, skill acquisition, education, credit, insurance and labour. It will conduct evaluations of specific interventions in developing countries, provide support to institutions conducting evaluations, engage in advocacy on best practice in terms of evaluations and on the design of interventions itself.

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Year: 136 publications
19 April 2012
W12/08
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.
13 April 2012
This is a summary of an intervention which we are investigating in an early child development project in Colombia.
11 April 2012
W12/07
This paper provides evidence on household responses to the relaxation of one barrier constraining adoption of health practices - lack of information - in a resource constrained setting.
26 March 2012
These slides accompanied a presentation at an event organised by the Colombian government on 26 March 2012 in Bogota.
19 March 2012
This presentation was given at the Centre for Study of African Economies Conference in Oxford on 18-20 March 2012 and the Royal Economic Society Annual Conference in Cambridge on 26-28 March 2012.
09 March 2012
This comment piece describes the level of integration between pupils of different backgrounds in Bradford's schools
08 March 2012
W12/04
This paper investigates how the permanent departure of the father from the household affects children's school enrolment and work participation in rural Colombia.
24 February 2012
Talk given at RSA jobs summit
09 January 2012
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This survey was among the first to use PDAs for data collection in rural Africa.
IFS research has contributed to consultation with governments in developing countries on the design of health and welfare programmes.
IFS researchers working in Malawi trained interviewers in the use of PDAs, helping to collect more complete and accurate information about people's lives.
IFS researchers develop a model of the Mexican tax system that will be used by the Mexican Government analysts.
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IFS researchers and the World Bank plan to develop capacity and tools in developing countries for the comprehensive analysis of tax reforms