education

Do job training programmes work?

The design and incentives of work programmes need to be aligned with the skills demanded by participating firms and the labour market at large

Labour Markets

Orazio Attanasio

Published

16.01.19

The long-term effects of cash transfers: Mexico’s Progresa

Conditional transfers in childhood improve education, labour, and economic outcomes in adulthood, especially for women

Social Protection

Susan W. Parker Tom Vogl

Published

17.12.18

What source of money do corrupt officials prefer?

The capacity of Brazilian local governments to source tax revenue has a greater impact on education and corruption than external transfers

Public Economics

Lucie Gadenne

Published

07.12.18

Remedying early life weather shocks with Mexico’s PROGRESA

Mexico’s conditional cash transfer programme improved the life of disadvantaged children even when not explicitly targeted

Social Protection

Achyuta Adhvaryu Teresa Molina Anant Nyshadham Jorge Tamayo

Published

26.11.18

What happens when you teach teenage girls negotiation skills?

Training girls in Zambia to negotiate saw them use strategies to secure household resources to stay in school longer, even in the face of poverty

Education

Corinne Low

Published

19.12.18

Unemployment: An advanced economy problem?

A new data set based on household surveys shows that unemployment is largely a feature of advanced economies, particularly for low-skill workers

Labour Markets

Ying Feng David Lagakos James E. Rauch

Published

27.06.18

Reconstruction and conflict: Losing hearts and minds

A study finds that military-led projects in the Afghan health sector alleviate violence, whereas those in the education sector actually provoke conflict

Infrastructure

Travers Barclay Child

Published

15.01.18

Land Rights and Urban Poverty

Sebastian Galiani on the impact Argentina’s land title policy had on credit access, housing quality, family welfare and economic ideology.

Infrastructure

Sebastian Galiani

Published

12.01.18

The role of disbursement timing in conditional cash transfer programmes: Long-term effects

An experiment in Colombia shows that delaying disbursement of conditional cash transfers can have substantial long-term effects on educational investment

Social Protection

Felipe Barrera-Osorio Leigh Linden Juan Saavedra

Published

17.10.17