This paper explores the interactions between state and society in rural India within a major community-based development program. We use…
Decades of low inflation led to widespread use of dollar-denominated financial instruments with fixed interest rates and long maturities.…
We estimate the equilibrium effects of a public school grant program administered through school councils in Pakistani villages with…
Using rich panel data from Pakistan, we compute test score based measures of quality (School Value-Addeds or SVAs) for more than 800…
Many developing country governments determine eligibility for anti-poverty programs using censuses of household assets. Does this distort…
We test for financial constraints as a market failure in education in a low-income country by experimentally allocating unconditional cash…
The international community has historically maintained hope that advances in science and technology offer humanity a wide range of options…
Sustained high economic growth since the early 1990s has brought significant change to the lives of Indian women, and yet female labor…
Many countries are trying to diversify their economies. Sri Lanka is an example. Governments like Sri Lanka often lack the capabilities to…
Bureaucracies often post staff to better or worse locations, ostensibly to provide incentives.
Yet we know little about whether this works…