While the effects of conditional cash transfers on primary school enrollment, attendance and dropouts are well documented, few studies address their impact on longer-term outcomes
like high-school graduation. The literature is even scarcer regarding how changes in the
amount of school grants affect educational outcomes, particularly in middle and high school,
where dropout rates are much higher. This study will address the effects of increased cash
grants on high school graduation rates in the context of urban Mexico. Starting in 2009,

This paper analyzes social mobility as realized by students of a high quality public flagshipuniversity in Brazil, the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), applying the methodology of
Chetty et al. 2017 in the paper "Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational
Mobility". Intergenerational income mobility is analyzed using the family income of students
matriculating to the university in 2005-2006 and individual earnings 8-9 years later. Upward
mobility is defined as the percentage of students who attain the highest quintile of individual

This paper analyzes social mobility as realized by students of a high quality public flagshipuniversity in Brazil, the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), applying the methodology of
Chetty et al. 2017 in the paper "Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational
Mobility". Intergenerational income mobility is analyzed using the family income of students
matriculating to the university in 2005-2006 and individual earnings 8-9 years later. Upward
mobility is defined as the percentage of students who attain the highest quintile of individual

Whilst there is an interest in recent surveys in understanding the impact of disruptive technologies on employment and the way in which skills might be a constraint on their take-up, this tends to be at an aggregate level with little consideration given to the types of job that may be affected or the specific skill needs that may arise. This report develops a set of suite of questions about: (i) how specific disruptive technologies may affect the demand of skills, occupations and employees; and, (ii) how the on-demand labour, crowd sourcing and other flexible forms of labour is undertaken.

Very few developing countries have long-term longitudinal surveys that have followed children from the early years throughout their adult life, with low attrition rates and large sample sizes. This type of survey is essential to understand what are critical times in the life cycle when gaps in different dimensions of human capital emerge and how they evolve over time and affect later outcomes. The Ecuador longitudinal survey started in 2003 and has had 5 subsequent follow-ups: 2005, 2008, 2011, 2014, and 2019. This data set contains the first five of them.

Information asymmetries and limited skills are two main factors affecting jobseekers’ chances to access quality jobs in developing countries. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of a job intermediation and wage subsidy program in Bolivia, a country with one of the highest levels of informality in Latin-America. Using administrative and survey, we find that the program substantially increases employment, formality, and earnings. These effects are heterogeneous across different subsamples of interest.