Vaccination has constituted the most effective response to save lives and reactivate economies and societies. By October 19th, 2022, almost 1,300 million Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine doses...
To continue monitoring how the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has affected the welfare of households in the region, the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) joined forces in...
To continue monitoring how the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has affected the welfare of households in the region, the World Bank and UNDP have joined forces in the implementation of a second phase of...
To continue monitoring how the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has affected the welfare of households in the region, the World Bank and UNDP have joined forces in the implementation of a second phase of...
A más de un año del inicio de la pandemia de COVID-19 y con campañas masivas de vacunación en marcha, más de la cuarta parte de la población adulta (18+) de América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) que tenía trabajo...
En América Latina y el Caribe, la pandemia sigue teniendo efectos pronunciados en el mercado laboral, especialmente para las mujeres. Los datos de encuestas telefónicas de alta frecuencia muestran que...
In Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), the effects of the pandemic on labor market outcomes continue to be pronounced, especially for women. Continued pronounced impacts on women’s employment are partly...
More than a year on from the start of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and with massive vaccination campaigns underway, over a quarter of the adult population in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)...
Social programs are often designed under the assumption that individuals make rational decisions that improve their welfare. Yet, informational and behavioral constraints limit the extreme and chronic...
This paper is organized in following headings: can we trust shoestring evaluations?; evaluation of development programs: randomized controlled trials or regressions?; effects of Colombia’s social protection...
The authors examine whether the Colombian government’s expansion of social programs in the early 1990s, particularly the publicly provided health insurance, discouraged formal employment. Using household...
This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled Conditional cash transfers, political participation, and voting behavior, conducted between 2001 and present in Colombia...
This paper examines whether the Colombian government's expansion of social programs in the early 1990s, particularly the publicly provided health insurance, discouraged formal employment. Using household...
In Colombia, researchers used administrative data to analyze the long-term impact of conditional cash transfers on schooling. Conditional cash transfer programs have been shown successful at increasing...
This paper estimates the effect of enrollment in a large scale anti-poverty program in Colombia, Familias en Accion, on intent to vote, turnout and electoral choice. For identification the analysis uses...
Conditional cash transfers are programs under which poor families get a stipend provided they keep their children in school and take them for health checks. Although there is significant evidence showing...