Bolsa Família and Household Labour Supply

In many conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes worldwide?including Brazil?s Bolsa Família?cash transfers are preferentially made to women. This feature was motivated by earlier research showing that greater control over resources among women is linked to an increase in their decision-making...

Uma preocupação comum acerca dos programas de tranferência de renda é de que eles podem gerar desincentivos para o trabalho. Ao elevar a renda, os recursos transferidos podem incentivar as famílias a desfrutar de mais tempo de lazer (não trabalho) e reduzir sua participação na força de...

Bolsa Família et la main d?oeuvre des ménages

Biofortification, breeding staple food crops to be dense sources of essential micronutrients, is fast emerging as a strategy to fight micronutrient malnutrition. Large scale biofortification investments are being made in several developing countries, but until recently little rigorous evidence...

Covering both qualitative and quantitative topics, the expert contributors in this Handbook explore fundamental issues of scientific logic, methodology and methods, through to practical applications of different techniques and approaches in migration research.

In this paper, we investigate how reductions of barriers to migration affect the decision of middle school graduates to attend high school in rural China. Change in the cost of migration is identified using exogenous variation across counties in the timing of national identity card distribution,...