We report the results of an experiment that was designed to test for discrimination in grading in India. We recruited teachers to grade…
This book is a story of one village, Yantian, and its remarkable economic and social transformation. The village sits in the Pearl River…
In one of Africa’s most ambitious investment decisions, South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has unveiled a plan to spend $97 billion on…
The United States is famous for its ability to innovate. Aspiring fiscal conservatives around the world thus might be interested in…
In the French parliament’s recent debate on Europe’s new fiscal treaty, the country’s Socialist government vehemently denied that…
A startling new United Nations Population Fund report projects that in 2050 there will be more people over the age of 60 than those under…
We use a unique data-set from Indonesia on what individuals know about the income
distribution in their village to test theories such as…
Existing learning models attribute failures to learn to a lack of data. We model a different
barrier. Given the large number of dimensions…
As the violent anti-American protests in the Muslim world subside, those in the region and in the U.S. are wondering whether the upheaval…
Book abstract: In the years following the global financial crisis, many low-income countries experienced rapid recovery and strong economic…