What is wrong with the news?
To answer this dismaying question, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Alex S. Jones explores how the epochal…
The present paper updates the question: what precisely is the exchange rate regime that China has put into place since 2005, when it…
We estimate the impact on pilgrims of performing the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. Our method compares successful and unsuccessful applicants…
The lack of "social capital" is frequently given as an explanation for why communities perform poorly. Yet to what extent can project…
Propensity score matching estimators (Rosenbaum and Rubin, 1983) are widely used in evaluation research to estimate average treatment…
Informal payments are a frequently overlooked source of local public finance in developing countries. We use microdata from ten countries…
Regression-based studies of inequality model only between-group differences,
yet often these differences are far exceeded by residual…