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2025-03: Extreme Weather Events and the Support for Democracy

Nicolas Cerkez

2025-02: Weathering Conflict: The Effect of Resource Shocks on Livestock Raids

Nathaniel Jensen, Jose Lopez-Rivas, Karlijn Morsink and Emma Rikken

2025-01: Frontier rule and conflict

Adeel Malik, Rinchan Ali Mirza and Faiz Ur Rehman

2024-07: Poverty Without Poverty Line

Olivier Sterck

2024-06: Silent networks: The role of inaccurate beliefs in reducing useful social interactions

Ronak Jain and Vatsal Khandelwal

2024-05: Does Effective School Leadership Improve Student Progression and Test Scores? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Malawi

Salman Asim, Stefan Dercon, Ravinder Gera Casley and Donna Harris

2024-04: Income Risk and Education Investment: Evidence from India

Shagnik Chakravarty

2024-03: The effects of mental health interventions on labour market outcomes in low-and-middle-income countries

Crick Lund, Kate Orkin, Marc Witte, John Walker, Thandi Davies, Johannes Haushofer, Sarah Murray, Judy Bass, Laura Murray, Wietse Tol and Patel Vikra

2024-02: The impact of climate change on work lessons for developing countries

Moustafa Feriga, Mancy Lozano Gracia and Pieter Serneels

2024-01: Weathering the storm: investigating the role of remittances as immediate disaster relief in developing countries

Zubin Deyal

2023-14: New integrated concepts and measures of income poverty and of 'common prosperity' in China

John Knight, Li Shi and Wan Haiyuan

2023-13: The infrastructure catalyst: analysing the impact of development finance institutions on private infrastructure financing in developing countries

Arth Mishra

2023-12: Aspiring to a better future: can a simple psychological intervention reduce poverty?

Stefan Dercon, Kate Orkin, Mahreen Mahmud, Robert Garlick, Johannes Haushofer and Richard Sedlmayr

2023-11: Jobseekers' beliefs about comparative advantage and (mis)directed search

Lukas Hensel, Kate Orkin, Andrea Kiss and Robert Garlick

2023-10: The future in mind: aspirations and long-term outcomes in rural Ethiopia

Stefan Dercon, Kate Orkin, Giulio Schinaia, Alemayehu Taffesse and Tanguy Bernard

2023-09: The Political Economy of Economic Policy Advice

Stefan Dercon

2023-08: Optimal Sub-Saharan and European trade policy response to the use of the food weapon by Russia: do regional taste variations count?

Yacine Ouahioune

2023-07: From drought to distress: unpacking the mental health effects of water scarcity

Richard Freund

2023-06: The direct and indirect economic consequences of climate damage in poor countries

John Knight

2023-05: Public Disclosure and Tax Compliance: Evidence from Uganda

Priya Manwaring and Tanner Regan

2023-04: Does human capital influence the gender gap in earnings? Evidence from four developing countries

Marcello Perez-Alvarez, Catherine Porter and Anvita Ramachandran

2023-03: Lighting the path forward? The impact of rural road construction on structural transformation in India: new evidence from the PMGSY Scheme and two complementary natural experiments

Thomas Kurian

2023-02: Building resilient education systems: evidence from large-scale randomized trials in five countries

Noam Angrist, Micheal Ainomugisha, Sai Pramod Bathena, Peter Bergman, Colin Crossley, Claire Cullen, Thato Letsomo, Moitshepi Matsheng, Rene Marlon Panti, Shwetlena Sabarwal and Tim Sullivan

2023-01: Fallacy of floating? Reconsidering the ability of flexible exchange rates to offset terms-of-trade volatility in developing countries

Ioana Octavia Popescu

2022-13: Returning to a Land of Opportunity? Effects of Land Restitution in Colombia

Naomi Crowther

2022-12: Exchange Rate Misalignment and Growth in Exports: Lessons from the 1994 CFA Franc Devaluation

Gustaf Dillner

2022-11: Informal Settlements & Consumption Gaps: Decomposing the Urban-Rural Consumption Gap Within African Countries

Emma Buckland

2022-10: Community Effects of Electrification: Evidence from Burkina Faso’s grid extension

Maika Schmidt Alexander Moradi

2022-09.2: Supply chains in times of crisis: Evidence from Kenya’s production network

Peter W Chacha, Benard K Kirui and Verena Wiedemann

2022-08: Microequity and Mutuality_experimental evidence on credit with performance contingent repayment

Francesco Cordaro, Marcel Fafchamps, Colin Mayer, Muhammad Meki, Simon Quinn and Kate Roll

2022-07: Irrigation and Conflict: Evidence from Kurdish Separatism in Turkey

Ollie Ballinger

2022-06: The Value of Names – Civil Society, Information, and Governing Multinationals on the Global Periphery

David Kreitmeir, Nathaniel Lane and Paul Raschky

2022-05: Proud to belong: The impact of ethics training on police officers

Donna Harris, Oana Borcan, Danila Serra, Henry Telli, Bruno Schettini and Stefan Dercon

2022-04: Resisting Social Pressure in the Household Using Mobile Money: Experimental Evidence on Microenterprise Investment in Uganda

Emma Riley

2022-03: The coming economic, social, and political apocalypse?

John Knight

2022-02: With or without him? Experimental evidence on gender-sensitive cash grants and trainings in Tunisia

Jules Gazeaud, Nausheen Khan, Eric Mvukiyehe and Olivier Sterck

2022-01: When are large female-led firms more resilient against shocks? Learnings from Indian enterprises during COVID-19 with diff-in-diff and causal forests

Merlin Stein

2021-14: The Freedom to Choose: Theory and Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Cash Transfer Restrictions

Jade Siu, Olivier Sterck and Cory Rodgers

2021-13: Appointments: A More Effective Commitment Device for Health Behaviors

Laura Derksen, Jason Kerwin, Natalia Ordaz Reynoso and Olivier Sterck

2021-12: The Working Dread? Analysing the Impact of the Hukou Reform on Firms’ Monopsony Power in China

Ida Brzezinska

2021-11: Income Inequality and Happiness: Which Inequalities Matter n China?

John Knight and Ramani Gunatilaka

2021-10: The Effect of Rural Electrification on Firm Creation - New Evidence from Ghana

Tom Carlowitz

2021-09: Manufacturing Revolutions: Industrial Policy and Industrialization in South Korea

Nathaniel Lane

2021-08: Fostering Innovation through Empowered Workers - Experimental Evidence from the Bangladeshi Garment Industry

Vanessa Schreiber

2021-07: Anticipatory Cash Transfers in Climate Disaster Response

Ashley Pople, Ruth Hill, Stefan Dercon and Ben Brunckhorst

2021-06: The Impact of COVID-19 on the Lives of Garment Workers in Central Bangladesh

Atonu Rabbani, Hannah Uckat and Christopher Woodruff

2021-05: The Economic Impact of Mobile Phone Ownership: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Tanzania

Philip; Roessler, Peter; Carroll, Flora; Myamba, Cornel; Jahari, Blandina; Kilama and Daniel; Nielson

2021-04: The Media or the Message? Experimental Evidence on Mass Media and Modern Contraception Uptake in Burkina Faso

Rachel Glennerster, Joanna Murray and Victor Pouliquen

2021-03-02: Asset-based microfinance for Microenterprises: Evidence from Pakistan

Faisal Bari, Kashif Malik, Muhammad Meki and Simon Quinn

2021-02: Environmental Regulation and Labour Demand among Vietnamese SMEs

Matthew Sharp