We use high frequency data on traffic congestion from Google Maps to measure the impact of Jakarta’s main traffic congestion reduction…
Outsourcing government service provision to private firms can improve efficiency and reduce rents, but there are risks that non-…
Based on survey research and ethnographic interviews, we analyze struggles over housing and access to infrastructure in two low-income "…
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A housing lottery in an Indian city provided winning slum dwellers the
opportunity to move into improved housing on the city’s periphery.…
We combine newly created data on per student government expenditure on children in government
elementary schools across India, data on per…
Home-based workers produce goods or services for the market from within or around their own homes: stitching garments and weaving textiles…
We use a unique data-set from Indonesia on what individuals know about the income
distribution in their village to test theories such as…
The clamour for the right to social pensions is another attempt to deal with the Indian state’s inability to provide adequate social…