Bureaucracies often post staff to better or worse locations, ostensibly to provide incentives. Yet we know little about whether…
In 1984, Pranab Bardhan published his classic work The Political Economy of Development in India (PEDI). It went on to become one of the…
Many developing country governments determine eligibility for anti-poverty programs using censuses of household assets. Does this distort…
High pollution persists in many developing countries despite strict environmental rules. We use a field experiment and a structural model…
Today in India, 67% percent of men own mobile phones, but only 33% percent of women do. South Asian countries in general are clear outliers…
Mining industries form a significant share of the industrial landscape of many poor countries. At the same time, mining activities have…
We test for financial constraints as a market failure in education in a low-income country by experimentally allocating unconditional cash…