Can small search costs that constrain information acquisition and monitoring across the administrative hierarchy provide a substantive…
Child stunting in India exceeds that in poorer regions like sub-Saharan Africa. Data on over 168,000 children show that, relative to Africa…
The costs of air and water pollution in India are extraordinarily high. Consequently, the deterioration of environmental quality is likely…
This paper presents a conceptual account of urban governance in Mumbai as a rent-sharing system based fundamentally on control over urban…
Many countries are trying to diversify their economies. Sri Lanka is an example. Governments like Sri Lanka often lack the capabilities to…
Several field experiments find positive returns to grants for male and not female microentrepreneurs. But, these analyses largely overlook…
Bureaucracies often post staff to better or worse locations, ostensibly to provide incentives.
Yet we know little about whether this works…
Using a biometric technology to monitor the attendance of public health workers in India resulted in a 15 percent increase in staff…
A housing lottery in an Indian city provided winning slum dwellers the opportunity to move into improved housing on the city’s periphery.…