What Works in Development? brings together leading experts to address one of the most basic yet vexing issues in development: what do we…
TRB Special Report 298: Driving and the Built Environment: Effects of Compact Development on Motorized Travel, Energy Use, and CO2…
China urbanization is associated with both increases in per-capita income and greenhouse gas emissions. This paper uses micro data to rank…
A key question for Social Security reform is whether workers respond to the link on the margin between the Social Security taxes they pay…
Scholars, including urban poverty researchers, have not seriously debated the important issues that Loïc Wacquant raised in his…
Empirical research on cities starts with a spatial equilibrium condition: workers and firms are assumed to be indifferent across space.…
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Despite recent growing demand from funders and governments, rigorous impact evaluations in Latin America and the Caribbean remain the…
This paper introduces a family of multi-period poverty measures
derived from commonly used static poverty measures. Our measures
trade-off…
Female education levels are very low in many developing countries.
Does maternal education have a causal impact on children's…