In response to the numerous challenges facing contemporary multilateral organizations, and indeed the very idea of multilateralism itself,…
This paper develops a new econometric framework to estimate and classify exchange rate regimes. They are classified into four distinct…
The clash between the Western and Chinese economic systems is threatening the world trading system, with countries increasingly using trade…
Many Americans are persuaded that trade agreements of the last 40 years have been a costly mistake. To be sure, open markets leave some…
We exploit a policy designed to randomly allocate roommates in a large South African university to investigate whether interracial…
Efforts to reduce global greenhouse-gas emissions must overcome the free-rider problem, and carbon border adjustment measures are the most…
Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI), Indonesia People’s Bank, has been the most successful promoter of financial inclusion in Indonesia since the…
Using rich panel data from Pakistan, we compute test score based measures of quality (School Value-Addeds or SVAs) for more than 800…
Background
The COVID-19 pandemic has adversely impacted child development and the well-being of caregivers, and such evidence ought to be…
We propose a new method to estimate causal effects from nonexperimental data. Each pair of sample units is first associated with a…