Poverty relief programs are shaped by politics. The particular design which social programs
take is to a large extent determined by the existing institutional constraints and politicians' …

This article reexamines the argument that targeted programs increase pro‐incumbent voting
by persuading beneficiaries to cast ballots against their first partisan choice. The evidence …

This paper evaluates how the Progresa program, which provides poor mothers in rural
Mexico with education grants, has affected enrollment. Poor children who reside in …

This study examines the adoption of improved maize germplasm in Oaxaca and Chiapas in
Mexico. It employs a propensity score-matching approach to analyze the impact of the …

This paper examines whether, in the absence of information on household income or
consumption, data on household infrastructure, building materials, and ownership of certain …

Latin America and the Caribbean has been one of the regions of the world with the greatest
inequality. This book explores why the region suffers from such persistent inequality …

One of the greatest tragedies of extreme poverty is its intergenerational transmission.
Children who grow up in poor families tend to be in poorer health and have lower levels of …

Background Many governments have implemented conditional cash transfer (CCT)
programmes with the goal of improving options for poor families through interventions in …

Several developing economies have recently introduced conditional cash transfer programs,
which provide money to poor families contingent on certain behavior, usually investments in …

Cash transfers to eligible households indirectly increase the consumption of ineligible
households living in the same villages. This effect operates through insurance and credit …