Are the well-known facts about urbanization in the United States also true for the developing world? We compare American metropolitan areas…
Bureaucracies often post staff to better or worse locations, ostensibly to provide incentives.
Yet we know little about whether this works…
New research shows high exit rates, no economic gains from housing relocation programs.
Using a biometric technology to monitor the attendance of public health workers in India resulted in a 15 percent increase in staff…
This paper examines the promise of inclusive social protection central to India’s Aadhaar scheme, a national initiative using biometric…
Evidence establishing the signi?cant impact of education on social and economic progress has fuelled global efforts to increase equitable…
A housing lottery in an Indian city provided winning slum dwellers the opportunity to move into improved housing on the city’s periphery.…
“Afterland is a powerful, essential collection of poetry that recounts with devastating detail the Hmong exodus from Laos and the fate of…
The promise of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) is that evidence gathered through the evaluation of a specific program helps us—possibly…
In collaboration with the Government of Bihar, India, we conducted a large-scale
experiment to evaluate whether transparency in fiscal…