In recent years, there has been an astonishing proliferation of empirical work on child labor.
An Econlit search of keywords “child lab* r” reveals a total of 6 peer reviewed journal articles …

During the past decade, the use of conditional cash transfer programs to increase
investment in human capital has generated considerable excitement in both research and …

We inhabit a perpetually accelerating and increasingly interconnected world, with new
ideas, fads, and fashions moving at social-media speed. New policy ideas, especially “ideas …

Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs aim to reduce poverty by making welfare
programs conditional upon the receivers' actions. That is, the government only transfers the …

El presente documento tiene por objeto sintetizar la experiencia de América Latina y el
Caribe con los programas de transferencias condicionadas, o" con corresponsabilidad" …

Safety nets are noncontributory transfer programs targeted to the poor or vulnerable. They
play important roles in social policy. Safety nets redistribute income, thereby immediately …

We meta-analyze for impact and cost-effectiveness 94 studies from 47 conditional cash
transfer programs in low-and middle-income countries worldwide, focusing on educational …

This paper is one in a series of World Bank Working Papers that seeks to document the
experience of Brazil's Bolsa Família Program. It highlights the key “nuts and bolts” of …

Using a student level randomization, we compare three education-based conditional cash
transfers designs: a standard design, a design where part of the monthly transfers are …

This article discusses the experience of six conditional cash transfer programmes in Latin
America, a model of social safety‐nets which has grown to dominate the social protection …