This paper tests whether family size has a causal effect on girls' education in Mexico.

Childcare costs are often viewed as one of the biggest barriers to work, particularly among lone parents on low incomes. We investigate the impact of youngest child being eligible for full-time primary education (relative to part-time nursery education) on welfare receipt and employment patterns amongst lone parents receiving welfare.

We study non cooperative household models with two agents and several voluntarily contributed public goods.

We examine the effect of large cash transfers on the consumption of food by poor households in rural Mexico.

We find a very strong correlation between cognitive ability across generations, as well as a strong relationship between family socio-economic status and cognitive ability.

Using a simple decomposition analysis, we show that around two thirds of the socio-economic gap in attainment at age 16 can be accounted for by long-run family background characteristics and prior ability.

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.

We evaluate the German apprenticeship system, which combines on-the-job training with classroom teaching, by modelling individual careers from the choice to join such a scheme and followed by their employment, job to job transitions and wages over the lifecycle.

This study evaluates a university access program that provides financial, academic and social support to low socioeconomic status (SES) students using a natural experiment which exploits the time variation in the expansion of the program across schools.

This paper provides a life-cycle framework for weighing up the insurance value of disability benefits against the incentive cost.