We study how search and information frictions shape market dynamics in global e-commerce. Observational data and self-collected quality…
To investigate barriers to universal health insurance in developing countries, we designed a randomized experiment involving about 6,000…
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A little over a year ago, the European Union’s (EU) political leaders agreed on an unprecedented fiscal package – dubbed ‘Next Generation…
A majority of countries neither freely float their currencies nor firmly peg. But most of the remainder in practice also don’t obey such…
Finance forms a necessary input for production, one so central that it was placed atop the decision tree in the original Growth Diagnostics…
Coordination Failures in Adopting New Technological Capabilities as the Binding Constraint to Growth
The process of structural transformation that has accompanied economic success stories requires an expansion of the technological…
Recent growth accelerations in Africa are characterized by increasing productivity in agriculture, a declining share of the labor force…
Faced with an overwhelming crisis, governments across the world grappled with difficult policy choices in response to COVID. Resolving…
We conduct a randomized controlled trial in Mexico City to determine willingness to pay (WTP) for SMS air quality alerts and to study the…
The literature on wage gaps between Chiapas and the rest of Mexico revolves around individual factors, such as education and ethnicity. Yet…