During the November 1, 2024 session of CID’s Fall Workshop Series, “The Politics of Failed Development: Inside IMF Look at Africa,” Dr.…
Once upon a time in the world of development finance, it was assumed that simply investing in developing economies was enough—that the flow…
Over the last two decades, social scientists across the disciplines have worked
tirelessly to enhance the precision of claims made about…
This book seeks to narrow two gaps: first, between the widespread use of case studies and their frequently “loose” methodological moorings…
The opening chapter provides a brief outline of the conventional division of labor between qualitative and quantitative methods in the…
It matters if public policies succeed in solving societal problems, but a dominant narrative holds that policies fail ‘often’. A large-…
We conduct a randomized controlled trial in Mexico City to determine willingness to pay (WTP) for SMS air quality alerts and to study the…
Understanding the advantages and limitations of economists’ methods clarifies the value they can add to analysis of non-economic questions…
Governments are most important in times of public crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Individuals, no matter how talented or self-…
In a lab-in-field experiment with elite civil servants in Pakistan, we investigate whether groups outperform individuals in a two-staged…