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…
French Minister of War Andre Maginot became famous among military strategists for his fixation on a single route of attack that led to…
It has long been known that countries only converge conditionally i.e. poor countries catch up with richer ones only if they adopt policies…
The prevailing aid orthodoxy works well enough in stable environments, but is ill-equipped to navigate contexts of volatility and fragility…
Though Egyptian voters clearly evince a desire for Islamic law (however defined), public opinion research shows that they also want robust…
The Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, taken together, will be the most expensive wars in US history – totaling somewhere between $4 to $6…
Days after the beginning of the Libyan uprising in February 2011, a self-appointed group of human rights lawyers and defectors from Qaddafi…
There is an urgent need to create a new generation of innovation-oriented agricultural that efficiently bring together agricultural…