A housing lottery in an Indian city provided winning slum dwellers the opportunity to move into improved housing on the city’s periphery.…
Growth has accelerated in a wide range of developing countries over the last couple of decades, resulting in an extraordinary period of…
The promise of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) is that evidence gathered through the evaluation of a specific program helps us—possibly…
The prevalence of many urban phenomena changes systematically with population size. We propose a theory that unifies models of economic…
In collaboration with the Government of Bihar, India, we conducted a large-scale
experiment to evaluate whether transparency in fiscal…
For decades, migration economics has stressed the effects of migration restrictions on income distribution in the host country. Recently…
The majority of women workers in developing countries – and a significant share of women workers in developed countries – are informally…