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What Do Trade Agreements Really Do?

As trade agreements have evolved and gone beyond import tariffs and quotas into regulatory rules and harmonization, they have become more difficult to fit into received economic theory.

Dilemmas in Rescue and Reintegration: A Critical Assessment of India’s Policies for Children Trafficked for Labour Exploitation

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the Indian government’s efforts to combat pervasive child trafficking for labour exploitation through rescue and reintegration of affected children.

Tangible Information and Citizen Empowerment: Identification Cards and Food Subsidy Programs in Indonesia

Redistribution programs in developing countries often “leak” because local officials do not implement programs as the central government intends. We study one approach to reducing leakage.

Enhancing Public Health Outcomes in Developing Countries: From Good Policies and Best Practices to Better Implementation

In rich and poor countries alike, a core challenge is building the state’s capability for policy implementation.

Explaining Preferences from Behavior: A Cognitive Dissonance Approach

The standard approach in positive political theory posits that action choices are the consequences of preferences.

This Is How Companies Can Close the Gender Pay Gap

Production of Sulfates Onboard an Aircraft: Implications for the Cost and Feasibility of Stratospheric Solar Geoengineering

Injection of sulfate aerosols into the stratosphere, a form of solar geoengineering, has been proposed as a means to reduce some climatic changes by decreasing net anthropogenic radiative forcing.

How to Convene an International Health or Development Commission: Ten Key Steps

The Commission on Investing in Health (CIH), an international group of 25 economists and global health experts, published its Global Health 2035 report in The Lancet in December 2013.

Adapting Tax Systems for Population Aging

Population aging is occurring around the world, presenting a number of policy challenges.

Monopolies, Mergers and Competition Policy

This book collects some of the author's most illuminating recent papers on competition policy published since the turn of the millennium.