Two big questions look somewhat different than they did 10 or 20 years ago. First: would the long-term trend of globalization continue?…
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.…
Money is essential for electoral politics yet its use and abuse often raises problems of graft, corruption, and cronyism. To throw new…
We combine newly created data on per student government expenditure on children in government
elementary schools across India, data on per…
This paper provides evidence that the personality traits of policy actors matter for policy outcomes in the context of two large-scale…
Does the lack of peers contribute to the observed gender gap in entrepreneurial success, and is the constraint stronger for women facing…
India's child stunting rate is among the highest in the world, exceeding that of
many poorer African countries. In this paper, we analyze…
When households increase their deposits in formal bank savings accounts, what
is the source of the money? We combine high-frequency surveys…
The Power of Transparency:
Information, Identification
Cards, and Food Subsidy
Programs in Indonesia
Information, Identification
Cards, and Food Subsidy
Programs in Indonesia
Can governments improve aid programs by providing information to
beneficiaries? In our model, information can change how much aid citizens…