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 Education
Much of the work at EDePo revolves around primary and secondary school choices in developing countries and how policies and programmes might affect such decisions. Much of our research goes beyond the estimation of programme impacts to consider behavioural responses to conditional cash transfer programmes (CCT); another strand considers how CCT programmes might act as a safety net in the event of the father departing from the household, and the role of risk and uncertainty in shaping education choices; another considers school quality and the returns to private education.
 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 project contributes to filling this gap by estimating the returns to private high schools in Mexico.
Researchers at IFS are using Mexican data from the Oportunidades CCT programme to extend a dynamic structural model of school attendance.
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 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.
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.
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.
We are evaluating Progresa and Oportunidades in Mexico and Familias en Accion in Colombia.
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