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…
The existence of collective reputation implies an important externality. Among firms trading internationally, quality shocks about one…
We investigate how market congestion and information friction affect firm dynamics and market efficiency in global e-commerce.…
Is there a tradeoff between environmental sustainability and economic development? If there is a place where that question can be…