Women empowerment and economic development are closely related: in one direction,
development alone can play a major role in driving down inequality between men and …

Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs innovate by conditioning transfers to poor families
on investments in the human capital of children and other family members. The Mexican …

Abstract Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) are increasingly popular in the social
sciences, not only in medicine. We argue that the lay public, and sometimes researchers, put …

Welfare conditionality has become an idea of global significance in recent years. A 'hot
topic'in North America, Australia, and across Europe, it has been linked to austerity politics …

Abstract Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) have been shown to increase human capital
investments, but their standard features make them expensive. We use a large randomized …

We conducted a systematic review to identify policy interventions that improve education
quality and student learning in developing countries. Relying on a theory of change …

The past decade has seen increased attention to cost-effectiveness and benefit-cost
analysis in education as administrators are being asked to accomplish more with the same …

We study the impact of an innovative program in the Indian state of Bihar that aimed to
reduce the gender gap in secondary school enrollment by providing girls who continued to …

In this article, we reviewed and interpreted the evidence from 223 rigorous impact
evaluations of educational initiatives conducted in 56 low-and middle-income countries. We …

Active labor market policies are massively used with the objective being to improve labor
market outcomes of individuals out of work. Many observational evaluation studies have …