Evaluation
and Design of Development Policies
Conditional Cash Transfers: Education
Education Choices in Mexico: Using a Structural Model and a Randomized Experiment to Evaluate
Progresa (2012), with Costas Meghir and
Ana Santiago. Forthcoming in Review of Economic Studies.
Children's schooling and work in the presence of a conditional cash
transfer programme in rural Colombia (2010), with E. Fitzsimons, A.
Gomez, D. Lopez, C. Meghir and A. Mesnard. Economic Development and
Cultural Change. January, 58:2, 181-210.
Better Coating for The Silver Bullet: Improving Conditional Cash Trasfers in Urban Mexico, with Costas Meghir, Ana Santiago and Andrew Shepherd. Draft October 2008.
Re-Evaluating Conditional Cash Transfers: Is The Oportunidades Primary
School Stipend Necessary?, with Marta Rubio-Codina,
available soon.
Conditional Cash Transfers: Consumption
The Demand for Food of Poor Urban Mexican Households: Understanding Policy
Impacts using Structural Models (2012), with Manuela Angelucci. Forthcoming in the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.
Food and Cash Transfers: Evidence from Colombia (2012), with Erich Battistin and Alice Mesnard. The Economic Journal.
Oportunidades: Program Effect on Consumption, Low
Participation and Methodological Issues (2009), with Manuela Angelucci. Economic Development and Cultural Change. April, 57(3):
479-506.
The impact of a conditional cash transfer programme on consumption in Colombia (2006), with A. Mesnard. Fiscal Studies. December, 27(4): 421–442.
Conditional Cash Transfers: Social Capital
Building Trust: Conditional Cash Transfers and Social Capital (2009), with Luca Pellerano and Sandra Polania-Reyes. Fiscal Studies
(June) 30(2): 139–177.
Conditional cash transfers and
Social Capital, with Luca Pellerano and
Sandra Polania-Reyes.
Evaluation of different programs
The impact of cash transfers to poor women in Colombia on BMI and obesity: prospective cohort study (2011), with Ian Forde, Tarani Chandola, Sandra Garcia and Michael Marmot. International Journal of Obesity. December 1(6).
Behind the scenes: experience managing and conducting large impact evaluations in Colombia (2011), with Bertha Briceño and Laura Cuesta. Journal of Development Effectiveness. 3 (4):470-501.
Subsidizing Vocational Training for Disadvantaged Youth in Colombia: Evidence from a Randomized Trial (2011), with Adriana Kugler and Costas Meghir. American Economic Journal. Applied Economics. July, 3(3): 188-220.
Community Nurseries and the Nutritional Status of Poor Children. Evidence from Colombia, with Vincenzo Di Maro and Marcos Vera-Hernandez (Appendix available here). Draft June 2012.
Formal Labor Market and Pension Wealth: Evaluating the 2008 Chilean Pension reform, with Costas Meghir and Andres Otero. Draft March 2011.
Other papers on behaviour in developing countries
Risk
Pooling, Risk Preferences and Social Networks (2012), with
Abigail Barr, Juan Camilo Cárdenas, Garance Genicot and Costas Meghir. American Economic Journal. Applied Economics, 4(2): 134–67.
Education Choices and Returns on the Labour and Marriage Markets: Evidence from Data on Subjective Expectations, with Katja Kaufmann. Draft January 2012.
Education Choices and Returns to Schooling: Intrahousehold Decision Making, Gender and Subjective Expectations, with Katja Kaufmann. Draft January 2012.
Group Lending or Individual Lending? Evidence from a Randomised Field Experiment in Mongolia, with Britta Augsburg, Ralph De Haas, Emla Fitzsimons and Heike Harmgart. Draft December 2011.
The
welfare consequences of increases in food prices in rural México and
Colombia, with
Vincenzo Di Maro, Valerie Lechene and David Phillips. Draft February 2009.
Do the Poor Pay More?, with Chris Frayne.