I study the role of aspirations in economic development drawing on the existing theoretical and empirical literature and provide some new…
The basic theoretical and practical issue facing the RISE initiative is to imagine and test a national level educational policy…
This paper studies how tax enforcement and tax compliance varies with firm size and its macroeconomic consequences. The identification…
In a world economy that is highly integrated, most policies produce effects across the border. This is often believed to be an argument for…
Many development agencies and governments now seek to engage directly with local communities, whether as a means to the realization of more…
Given the complex relationships between patients’ demographics, underlying health needs, and outcomes, establishing the causal effects of…
In work undertaken over the past decade with my colleagues Matt Andrews and Lant Pritchett, we have sought to address three big-picture…
The Chinese government has repeatedly embraced a goal of developing and deploying electric vehicles (EVs) as it attempts to transition its…
The conventional paradigm about development banks is that these institutions exist to target well-identified market failures. However,…