social protection

A field experiment in Colombia found that disclosing the identity-based criteria used to select students for a free training programme reduced enrolment, suggesting that how targeted invitations are framed shapes whether intended beneficiaries actual...

A large temporary cash incentive rapidly enrolled millions of informal workers into Thailand's voluntary social insurance programme, demonstrating that enrolment barriers can be overcome when incentives are strong enough. However, the high dropout ra...

Cold snaps increase domestic violence in the Peruvian Highlands by reducing agricultural income. Policies that improve households’ resilience to agricultural income losses can help mitigate this effect.

When a family member becomes disabled, individuals become more risk averse—a finding with significant implications for policies that address poverty and vulnerability in disability-affected households.

What do we know about the impacts of decentralised governance in developing countries?

Can you build sustainable income for the very poor with individual parts of multi-faceted programmes?

Cash transfers improve food security for up to two years, but without an increase in food expenditures and non-agricultural income

Feelings of relative poverty engender political support among cash transfer recipients, while such feelings erode political support among non-beneficiaries

The extension of social pensions in Namibia in the 1990s led to a rapid, substantial decline in fertility