Este trabajo analiza los determinantes de la relación entre asistencia escolar y trabajo infantil y juvenil, en los municipios de Funza y Madrid (Colombia). Se busca responder a las preguntas: ¿Existe algún vínculo entre la decisión de no asistir y la participación de niños y jóvenes en...

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 randomized control trial and a very rich dataset collected...

We examine the channels through which a randomized early childhood intervention in Colombia led to significant gains in cognitive and socio-emotional skills among a sample of disadvantaged children. We estimate production functions for cognitive and socio-emotional skills as a function of...