This paper empirically explores the effect of the Universal Child Allowance –a conditional Cash Transfer Program recently launched in Argentina– on backwardness in school. Specifically, we evaluate whether children enrolled in the program closed their education gap, differentiating between...

Household Income & Expenditure Survey (2006/07) data were used to estimate the impacts of ‘Samurdhi’ – the largest state-sponsored microfinance program in Sri Lanka – on the status of household income, health, education, and food and non-food consumption. Propensity Score Matching was...

Using panel data econometric techniques and propensity score matching procedures, this study evaluates the impact of the MAUNLAD agricultural development program - a program designed to help alleviate poverty in Philippine coconut-producing communities. Our results indicate that the program had...