This paper uses household panel data to provide robust evidence on the effects of BRAC’s Targeting the Ultra-poor Program in Bangladesh. Our identification strategy exploits type-1 errors in assignment, comparing households correctly included with those incorrectly excluded, according to...

Chile has one of the lowest female labor force participation rates among Latin American countries. To promote female participation, part-time jobs are being encouraged (they are seen as a way to balance paid work, care and chores activities). Simple correlations between part-time work and hourly...

Although the importance of the elasticity of substitution between capital and labor (σ) has long been recognized in several branches of economics, it has not received enough attention in the growth literature. de La Grandville (1989) showed theoretically that at any stage of an economy's...