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

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

We propose a new measure of the rate of poverty we call the Supplemental Expenditure Poverty Measure (SEPM) based on … the minimum bundle necessary to meet basic needs. Our measure differs from conventional income and consumption poverty in … both concept and measurement and it has advantages relative to both. Poverty rates using our basic measure are very close …

alone, we document that social isolation, poverty, and health challenges are three of the leading correlates of depression …

I discuss recent books offering differing explanations for persistent U.S. poverty. Desmond (2023) argues that aid to …

beneficiary population by studying the Pension 65 program in Peru, which uses a poverty eligibility threshold. We find that the …) in their study on a non-contributory pension scheme in Mexico. Thus, we conclude that the effects of non …-contributory pensions on well-being in rural Mexico can be largely generalized to Peru …

poverty. Drawing on data from Mexico's Adultos Mayores Program (Older Adults Program) - a cash transfer scheme aimed at rural …

at which households come out of poverty affects their asset purchase decisions … asset accumulation and energy use in the context of Mexico's conditional cash transfer program. We find that transfers had a …

Tourism is a fast-growing services sector in developing countries. This paper combines a rich collection of Mexican … consequences of tourism both locally and in the aggregate. We find that tourism causes large and significant local economic gains … regions, so that the national gains from trade in tourism are mainly driven by a classical market integration effect …

, talent or motivation. The other, the poverty traps view, differences in opportunities which stem from access to wealth. To … who begin in extreme poverty. The setting is rural Bangladesh and the asset is cows. The data supports the poverty traps … (from casual labor in agriculture or domestic services to running small livestock businesses) and grow out of poverty. The …