experimental study based on a hope intervention in Oaxaca, Mexico among 601 indigenous women with access to microfinance loans. Our …

This paper provides novel insights into the science of scaling by examining an educational mentoring program in Mexico …

Efforts to attract and retain effective educators in high poverty public schools have had limited success. Dallas ISD …

extended family. Using household panel data from the Progresa program in rural Mexico, we exploit information on the paternal …

rural incomes in China. Current literature based on analyses of rural income volatility in China decomposes poverty into … poverty gap attributable to mean income over time being below the poverty line. Resulting estimates of 40-50 % transient … poverty point to the policy conclusion that poverty may be a less serious social problem than it appears in annual data due to …

This paper uses an RCT to estimate the impact of PROBEMS, a scholarship program in Mexico aimed at improving graduation …

In this paper, I examine changes in the distribution of labor income across regions of Mexico during the country …-exposure states by 10% and the incidence of wage poverty (the fraction of wage earners whose labor income would not sustain a family … of four at above-poverty consumption levels) in low-exposure states increased relative to high-exposure states by 7% …