We use data from a randomized controlled trial conducted in 2003-2006 in rural Amhara and Oromiya (Ethiopia) to study the impacts of the introduction of microfinance in treated communities. We document that borrowing increased substantially in locations where the programs started their...

We study semiparametric efficiency bounds and efficient estimation of parameters defined through general moment restrictions with missing data. Identification relies on auxiliary data containing information about the distribution of the missing variables conditional on proxy variables that are...

We study whether a sudden increase of the price of rice supplied by the Indian Public Distribution System in Andhra Pradesh, a large Indian state, had a negative impact on child weight. After the price increase, the Indian National Family Health Survey started measuring weight in a sample of...

In India, as in other countries, indexes of consumer prices perform many important functions. Millions of workers have their wages indexed to some measure of the price level. Just as important is the issue that is our main focus here, the estimation of poverty. Indian poverty rates are defined...

The flows of migration from neighbouring countries into the European Union have, since its inception, been more relevant than those of internal migration. Thus, labour movements from relatively less industrialized countries of the EU —such as Italy in the 50's—towards the relatively more...