China enacted a rural tax reform – the "Tax-for-Fee Reform" (TFR) – in the late 1990s. A crucial but unanswered … question is whether this reform improved farmers' welfare in rural areas. This paper uses village-level survey data from the … evidence that the direct welfare effects improved farmer's net income. In contrast, the reform appears to have reduced the …

education levels. The methodology applied in this study follows a Covariance Structure Model and analyzes the case of Antioquia … (Colombia). The results suggest positive impacts of education and household well-being, affecting children´s education and …

In the nineties Argentina implemented a large education reform (Ley Federal de Educación – LFE) that mainly implied the … income-deprived youths was small for education outcomes and null for labor outcomes. En los noventa Argentina implementó una … extension of compulsory education in two additional years. The timing in the implementation substantially varied across …

In the late 1990s, China enacted a rural tax reform known as the "Tax-for-Fee Reform" (TFR), largely driven by a desire … significant changes in inequality from the reform. …

Pathways to Education is a comprehensive youth support program developed to improve academic outcomes among those …

We investigate how prenatal economic fluctuations affected birth weight in Argentina during the period from January …