This study evaluates an intervention in the dairy subsector by an Indian livelihood promotion institution and conducts a detailed analysis of the main cost and benet factors of the activity.

Although microfinance institutions across the world are moving from group lending towards individual lending, this strategic shift is not substantiated by sufficient empirical evidence on the impact of both types of lending on borrowers. We present such evidence from a randomised field experiment in rural Mongolia.

This paper presents the findings from two experiments designed to test the hypothesis that individuals' notions of distributive justice are associated with their economic status relative to others within their own society.

This paper examines trends in household consumption and saving behaviour in each of the last three recessions in the UK.

In this paper, we estimate the separate impacts of tuition fees and maintenance grants on the decision to enter university in the UK.

I develop and estimate a model of the labor market in which precautionary savings interacts with labour market frictions to produce substantial inequality in wealth among ex ante identical workers.

In this paper we provide evidence that the growth in Chinese patenting activity has been accompanied by a growth in Chinese inventors creating technologies that are near to the science base.

This paper uses administrative data to evaluate a targeted, time-limited policy aimed at getting lone parents off benefits and into work.

This paper examines changes in health and disability related transfers in the UK over the last thirty years, and describes how they are related to changes in labour force participation.

This study looks at the impact on criminal behaviour of a reform to the number of years' compulsory schooling in Sweden.