Making a living and securing basic necessities in challenging environments. Including issues such as: social protection, climate change, resource scarcity, human capital, disabilities, resilience, and wellbeing.
We use a controlled randomized trail to estimate the causal effects of a low-cost housing intervention on multiple dimensions of welfare in Latin America countries El Salvador and Peru.

Principal Investigators: Ruth Hall. Lead Organisation: University of the Western Cape
Co-investigators: Ian Scoones; Dzodzi Akuyo Tsikata

Researchers will study human development in its many dimensions from early infanthood throughout childhood as well as the policies implemented to target these dimensions to identify mechanisms that underlie the accumulation of human capital.
Average and marginal returns to upper secondary schooling in Indonesia
Giving children a better start: Preschool attendance and school-age profiles
Preschool and maternal labour market outcomes : evidence from a regression discontinuity design
Educational choices, subjective expectations and credit constraints
Training disadvantaged youth in Latin America : evidence from a randomized trial
The effect of a large expansion of pre-primary school facilities on preschool attendance and maternal employment
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