Decades of low inflation led to widespread use of dollar-denominated financial instruments with fixed interest rates and long maturities.…
The international community has historically maintained hope that advances in science and technology offer humanity a wide range of options…
Bureaucracies often post staff to better or worse locations, ostensibly to provide incentives.
Yet we know little about whether this works…
This paper provides evidence that the personality traits of policy actors matter for policy outcomes in the context of two large-scale…
In many countries, polling day ends with disputes about ballot-box fraud, corruption, and flawed registers. Which claims are legitimate?…
We study the impact of providing school and child test scores on subsequent test scores, prices, and enrollment in markets with multiple…
We construct the topology of business networks across the population of firms in an emerging
economy, Pakistan, and estimate the value that…
Evaluations of educational programs commonly assume that what children learn persists over time. The authors compare learning in Pakistani…