Salvador, Mexico and Uruguay. We experimentally evaluate the impact of a housing project run by the NGO TECHO which provides … program is to improve household well-being. Our findings show that better houses have a positive effect on overall housing … improvements in children's health; in El Salvador, slum dwellers also feel that they are safer. We do not find this result, however …

areas. Many papers in the public health literature show associations between access to clean water sources or improved …

Mexico to test whether teacher training could increase teacher efficiency in public secondary schools. After seven and a half …

-contributory health insurance program in Mexico, the Seguro Popular (SP). SP provided access to health services without co-pays to …We present a comprehensive evaluation of the health impacts of the introduction and expansion of a large non …

reducing housing barriers to entry into cities and of different forms of school integration between the city and the slums is …The emergence of slums is a common feature in a country's path towards urbanization, structural transformation and … development. Based on salient micro and macro evidence of Brazilian labor, housing and education markets, we construct a simple …

results confirm that interventions that improve nutrition and/or health during the first 1,000 days of life can have lasting …