Once upon a time in the world of development finance, it was assumed that simply investing in developing economies was enough—that the flow…
Decades of low inflation led to widespread use of dollar-denominated financial instruments with fixed interest rates and long maturities.…
The international community has historically maintained hope that advances in science and technology offer humanity a wide range of options…
Bureaucracies often post staff to better or worse locations, ostensibly to provide incentives.
Yet we know little about whether this works…
Money is essential for electoral politics yet its use and abuse often raises problems of graft, corruption, and cronyism. To throw new…
This paper provides evidence that the personality traits of policy actors matter for policy outcomes in the context of two large-scale…
In many countries, polling day ends with disputes about ballot-box fraud, corruption, and flawed registers. Which claims are legitimate?…
We study the impact of providing school and child test scores on subsequent test scores, prices, and enrollment in markets with multiple…
We construct the topology of business networks across the population of firms in an emerging
economy, Pakistan, and estimate the value that…
Female education levels are very low in many developing countries.
Does maternal education have a causal impact on children's…