Recently, early investments in the human capital of children from socially disadvantaged environments have attracted a great deal of attention. In a discrete version of the Mirrlees model with a parents' and a children's generation we show the intra-generational and the inter-generational...

Inflation-adjusted spending on means-tested subsidies have increased sharply since 2007, and most of this growth was due to changes in eligibility rules, and increases in subsidies per eligible person, rather than increases in the number of people who would have been eligible under pre-recession...

The guide outlines the main evaluation challenges associated with ALMP’s, and shows how to obtain rigorous impact estimates using two leading evaluation approaches. The most credible and straightforward evaluation method is a randomized design, in which a group of potential participants is...

This paper explores the introduction of collective risk-sharing elements in defined contri-bution pension contracts. We consider status-contingent, age-contingent and asset contingent risk-sharing arrangements. All arrangements raise aggregate welfare, as measured by equiva- lent variations....

We adopt a structural approach to studying the effects of public transfers on consumption smoothing, risk sharing and welfare in small village economies. We calibrate the key parameters of a dynamic limited commitment model using data gathered as part of the Mexican Progresa program, and take...

There are a broad range of rehabilitation programs but results differ significantly among them, from positive to no-effect programs -and even to negative-effect programs. Hence, in order to guide policy, it is necessary to find out the features that should be present in programs for inmates to...

Los programas de transferencias condicionadas (ptc), como el Oportunidades de México, se enfocan en tres componentes básicos, a saber: educación, salud y alimentación. En relación con el primero, una de sus finalidades es reducir el ausentismo escolar, el cual se genera en contextos de...

El programa de Familias en Acción (FA), al igual que otras políticas de transferencias condicionadas en diversos países, ha mostrado tener efectos significativos y positivos en el uso de servicios de educación y salud; sin embargo, los resultados sobre logro escolar han sido menos claros....

Este artículo pretende ubicar a América Latina en el escenario internacional de la llamada Sociedad de la Información" durante el período 2000-2007. Para ello se revisan los principales índices desarrollados por diversos organismos no gubernamentales como el Foro Económico Mundial, la...

El presente artículo hace referencia al análisis de las reformas es tructurales realizadas en AméricaLatina y el Caribe en la década 1990-2000 y sus efectos en los sistemas de seguridad social en saludadoptados por cada país. Dicho análisis se basa en determinar a través de modelos...