The aim of this project is to create a data set from interviews with civil servants from across the national government of Nigeria.

This project aims to ensure that CCT programmes deliver value for money, by engaging in robust analysis of CCT programmes through a macro-level comparative study and more importantly, in-depth case study investigations.

This randomized control trial intends to measure the impact of microcredit on poverty reduction among Bosnian households and the development of small enterprises that may otherwise not have access to finance.

Researchers at IFS are using Mexican data from the Oportunidades CCT programme to extend a dynamic structural model of school attendance.

The United Nations University (UNU/Merit) together with the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS, UK) is responsible for the evaluation of the programme interventions.

This project investigates the impact of different forms of complexity - the complications that arise in the physical implementation of public goods - have on the delivery of public goods in Nigeria.

This project evaluates a cash transfer programme aimed at improving child health and development in Kazakhstan.

The Rio Early Child Development Evaluation is an ongoing project that takes advantage of excess demand for daycare centres in Rio de Janeiro to evaluate rigorously the impact of public daycare provision versus alternative forms of care.

This study will use data on the Chilean poor, and will revolve around a new government program designed to improve parental skills.

This study exploits the setting provided by the PROGRESA/OPORTUNIDADES intervention to estimate a child care production function and understand the mechanisms through which conditional cash transfer programs can affect child outcomes.

In this research project we develop and evaluate a cost-effective and sustainable intervention to promote early child development.

This project evaluates 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 project analyses a microfinance program that helps the rural poor to diversify their income sources by engaging into milk-selling as an extra income generating activity.

This project's ultimate aim is to estimate the impact of the recent rises in food prices on the welfare of poor families in rural Mexico.

In this work, we investigate whether the effects of a particular intervention vary depending on network size.

This project analyzes enforcement of regulation in Brazil, and its effects on the labor market, namely employment, informality, and inequality.

In this project we study heterogeneity in the returns to upper secondary education in Indonesia.

In this project we study the effectiveness of school grants in Senegal.

In this project we study alternative ways of preventing and controlling Malaria in different countries in sub-saharan Africa.

This project studies Chile Solidario, a welfare program in Chile.

The IFS is part of a team of research institutions working at the impact evaluation of the Juntos network, aimed at reducing extreme poverty in Colombia.

In this project we study the shape of food Engel curves among the poor population targeted by a conditional cash transfer programme in Colombia, Familias en Acción. We show that in estimating Engel curves it is crucial to control for the endogeneity of total expenditure and for the (unobserved) variability of prices across towns.

In this project we divide the seven Mexican states in which PROGRESA was carried out into two groups and check to what extent the results in one group can be extrapolated to the others.

In this project we test the risk sharing hypothesis within neighbourhoods and villages in Colombia, using detailed household data from the Familias en Accion evaluation.

This project explores the effect of the Familias en Accion conditional cash transfer programme on prices.

In this work, we investigate the causal effect of reproductive health on poverty-related indicators and networks in Malawi.

This project involves a randomised field experiment to measure the impact of microcredit on poverty reduction among poor rural women in Mongolia.

The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia is implementing a Conditional Cash Transfer for secondary school attendance targetting the poorest segments of the population.

In this project, we study expenditure patterns among poor households in rural Colombia.

This project studies migration decisions of very poor households in an environment of high level of violence.

The objective of this project is to investigate what are the determinants of the pension system's coverage in Chile, Colombia and Mexico.

This project analyses the findings from a series of

In this project we analyse the findings from a series of risk-sharing games that were conducted in the spring of 2006 in 70 municipalities in rural Colombia with predominantly poor participants.

This project investigates the properties and plausibility of responses to a question that is designed to ascertain the response to the withdrawal of educational subsidies.

This project investigates the properties and plausibility of a measure of expected income and income risk using direct-questioning methods. This data was collected as part of the Familias en Accion evaluation.

We describe the structure of consumption of households in Mexico where large cash transfers have been made to women in households randomly selected from a poor population.

In this project, we study the effects of Hogares Comunitarios.

Health risks are among the most severe risks confronting poor households in Sub-Saharan Africa, especially in areas where affordable and good quality health care is scarce and access to health insurance is limited.

In this work, we explore whether early exposure to the school system (in the form of pre-primary education) appears as a successful policy option.

This project explores how the presence and characteristics of extended family members in the same village affect the economic outcomes of households.

This project analyses whether there is any evidence of income uncertainty and adverse shocks affecting choices relating to the schooling and work of children in rural Colombia.

This project investigates the main factors behind the very high and increasing return to College observed in Brazil in the decade of the 1990s. Using a joint model of education choice, labour force participation and wages with unobserved heterogeneity, we evaluate the role of changes in the composition of those completing Intermediate and Higher education and the impact of availability and quality of schooling and of local economic conditions when young in determining schooling outcomes.

Jóvenes en acción is a training program for young urban unemployed run by the Colombian government on a loan from the World Bank and the IADB.

We are evaluating Progresa and Oportunidades in Mexico and Familias en Accion in Colombia.

EDePo is committed to identifying success and failures in development policy 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.

IFS Researchers will be working with researchers at the London Business School on a project investigating the adoption of information and communication technology (ICT) in Brazil and India. This will involve collecting new firm-level data through surveys. The research will examine the role of infrastructure, human capital and organisation in ICT adoption process. We will look at the impact of adoption on performance, employment and wage structures. There is currently little evidence on the potential role of ICT in developing countries. These two countries make interesting studies in part because Brazil has a well-developed ICT infrastructure and India has a largely undeveloped and highly localised infrastructure. The research will be interesting both in the development context and also because we are able to exploit variation in infrastructure availability that we do not see in OECD countries.

This study considers the consumption patterns amongst households in extreme poverty using a dataset covering 122 municipalities in Colombia. Looking particularly at goods such as food, education, health, house services, alcohol and tobacco, researchers will analyse the changes in relation to income, income sources and prices. In addition the research will look at how different members of the household change their patterns of consumption, especially children.

The Mexican government started, in 1998, a large welfare program, called Progresa, targeted at rural Mexico. Several researchers at the Centre are involved in various research projects on Progresa and in the design of the evaluation of Oportunidades, the program that the Mexican government is launching in urban areas as an expansion of Progresa.

The analysis of risk and how poor households cope with it is the focus of several research projects being carried out at the centre. These include a project that evaluate the amount of risk sharing in rural Mexico and how that is related to various features of the village.

This work will collect new evidence on the determinants and effects of ICT adoption by firms in Brazil and India.

Familias en acción is a program very similar to the Mexican Progresa and consists of cash transfers conditional mainly on school attendance. Empleo en acción is a temporary employment program targeted at generating low skill employment. Jóvenes en acción is a program of job training (through courses and apprenticeship schemes) for young urban unemployed.