We evaluate the large scale pilot of an innovative and major welfare intervention in Colombia, which combines homes … visits by trained social workers to households in extreme poverty with preferential access to social programs. We use a … that this major national program is likely to fail in making a significant contribution to reducing extreme poverty. We …

We examine the channels through which a randomized early childhood intervention in Colombia led to significant gains in …

Colombia since 2002, on school enrolment and child labour. Using a difference-in-difference framework, our results show that …

enrolment and work participation in rural Colombia. Our results show that departure of the father decreases children's school …

Several decades of conflict, rebellion and unrest severely weakened civil society in parts of Colombia. Desarollo y Paz … rural and urban Colombia with mainly poor participants. The data covers municipalities both with ('treatment') and without … initiative. The data for 'control' municipalities was collected as part of the evaluation of Familias en Accion (FeA), Colombia …

, affects children's school enrolment and work participation in rural Colombia. In our empirical specification we use household …

We study food Engel curves among the poor population targeted by a conditional cash transfer programme in Colombia …