After decades of stagnation, the size of Latin America's middle class recently expanded to
the point where, for the first time ever, the number of people in poverty is equal to the size of …

Income shocks on poor households are known to induce parents to take their children out of
school and send them to work when other risk-coping instruments are insufficient. State …

Cash transfer programs have become extremely popular in the developing world. A large
literature analyzes their effects on schooling, health and nutrition, but relatively little is known …

This paper provides new evidence of sharp differences in cognitive development by socioeconomic
status in early childhood for five Latin American countries using a common measure …

Can personality traits be measured and interpreted reliably across the world? While the use
of Big Five personality measures is increasingly common across social sciences, their …

This article analyses the role of interactions with local leaders in amplifying poor households'
investment response to a social programme. The causal effect of social interactions is …

The objectives of this paper are to provide a synthesis of current thinking and analytical
approaches to risk and vulnerability analysis, social risk management and the analysis of …

This study presents the first quantitative impact evaluation of the Juntos conditional cash
transfer program in Peru using non-experimental evaluation techniques. Overall, the analysis …

While climate change is likely to increase weather risks in many developing countries, there
is little evidence on effective policies to facilitate adaptation. This paper presents …

This paper presents empirical evidence on the relative importance of farm and urban linkages
for rural non-farm employment in Bangladesh. The results suggest that people are more …