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2021-01: The labour market impacts of female internal migration: Evidence from the end of Apartheid

Matthew Sharp

2020-23: Impact of Slum Redevelopment Projects on Labour Market Outcomes: Evidence from Addis Ababa

Omer Ozgen

2020-22: Trade Liberalisation and Female Employment in Manufacturing: Evidence from India

Elsa Kyander

2020-21: Do Deadline Extensions Encourage Tax Filing? Evidence from Pakistan

Muhammad Khudadad Chatta

2020-20: An Adaptive Targeted Field Experiment: Job Search Assistance for Refugees in Jordan

A. Stefano Caria, Grant Gordon, Maximilian Kasy, Simon Quinn, Soha Shami and Alexander Teytelboym

2020-19-02: Sharing Risk to Avoid Tragedy: Informal Insurance and Irrigation in Village Economies

Karol Mazur

2020-18: Perpetual Motion: Human Mobility and Spatial Frictions in Three African Countries

Paul Blanchard, Douglas Gllin and Martina Kirchberger

2020-17: Rural Mobility and Climate Vulnerability: Evidence from the 2015 Drought in Ethiopia

Ben Brunckhorst

2020-16: Automation, trade and multinational activity: Micro evidence from Spain

Katherine Stapleton and Michael Webb

2020-15: Early Motherhood and Offspring Human Capital in India

Marcelloa Perez-Alvarez and Marta Favara

2020-14: The labor market and poverty impacts of COVID-19 in South Africa

Ronak Jain, Joshua Budlender, Rocco Zizzamia and Ihsaan Bassier

2020-13: Stemming Learning Loss During the Pandemic: A Rapid Randomized Trial of a Low-Tech Intervention in Botswana

Noam Angrist, Peter Bergman, Caton Brewster and Moitshepi Matsheng

2020-12: The Cash Crop Revolution, Colonialism and Legacies of Spatial Inequality: Evidence from Africa

Philip Roessler, Yannick I Pengi, Robert Marty, Kyle Sorlie Titlow and Nicolas Van de Walle

2020-11: What is a firm census in a developing country? An answer from Ghana

Andrew Kerr and Bruce McDougall

2020-10: Job Search and Hiring with Two-sided Limited Information about Workseekers’ Skills

Eliana Carranza, Robert Garlick, Kate Orkin and Neil Rankin

2020-09: Cash Transfers and Micro-Enterprise Performance: Theory and Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Olivier Sterck and Antonia Delius

2020-08: Better Night Lights Data, For Longer

John Gibson

2020-07: Building Resilient Health Systems: Experimental Evidence from Sierra Leone and the 2014 Ebola Outbreak

Darin Christensen, Oeindrila Dube, Johannes Haushofer, Bilal Siddiqi and Maarten Voors

2020-06: A Tale of Two Countries and Two Stages: South Africa, China, and the Lewis Model

John Knight

2020-05: Divide to Conquer? Latent Preference Types and Country-level Heterogeneity

Yannick Markhof

2020-04: Scarcity and Cognitive Function around Payday: A Conceptual and Empirical Analysis

Anandi Mani, Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldarl Shafir and Jiaying Zhao

2020-03: Sex workers, Stigma and Self-Image: Evidence from Kolkata Brothels

Sayantan Ghosal, Smarajit; Jana, Anandi; Mani, Sandip; Mitra and Sanchari Roy

2020-02: Cognitive Droughts

Guilherme Lichand and Anandi Mani

2020-01: Night Lights in Economics: Sources and Uses

John Gibson, Susan Olivia and Geua Boe-Gibson

2019-16: Cash Transfers and Migration: Theory and Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial

Jules Gazeaud, Eric Mvukiyehe and Olivier Sterck

2019-15: Humanitarian vs. Development Aid for Refugees: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Claire MacPherson and Olivier Sterck

2019-14: Why are boys falling behind? Explaining gender gaps in school attainment in Sri Lanka

Rozana Himaz and Harsha Aturupane

2019-13: Do Capital Grants Improve Microenterprise Productivity?

Laurin James, Michael Koelle and Simon Quinn

2019-12: The Politics of Trade Protection: Evidence from an EU-mandated Tari Liberalization in Morocco

Christian Ruckteschler, Adeel Malik and Ferdinand Eib

2019-11: Learning Management Through Matching: A Field Experiment Using Mechanism Design

Girum Abebe, Marcel Fafchamps, Michael Koelle and Simon Quinn

2019-10: Implicit and Explicit Commitment in Credit and Saving Contracts: A Field Experiment

Uzma Afzal, Giovanna d'Adda, Marcel Fafchamps, Simon; Quinn and Farah Said

2019-09: Can Simple Psychological Interventions Increase Preventive Health Investment?

Johannes Haushofer, Anett John and Kate Orkin

2019-08: Microenterprises and the Lure of Wage Work: Theory and Evidence from Mexican Export Manufacturing

Michael Koelle

2019-07: Biased Policy Professionals

Sheheryar Banuri, Stefan Dercon and Varun Gauri

2019-06: The demand for insurance under limited trust: Evidence from a field experiment in Kenya

Stefan Dercon, Jan Willem Gunning and Andrew Zeitlin

2019-05: Parental aspirations for children’s education: is there a “girl effect”? Experimental evidence from rural Ethiopia

Tanguy Bernard, Stefan Dercon, Kate Orkin and Alemayehu Taffesse

2019-04: Domestic Credit and Export Diversification: Africa from a Global Perspective

Augustin Fosu and Abdul Fatawu Abass

2019-03: The timing of parental death in childhood and non-cognitive outcomes as a young adult

Rozana Himaz

2019-02: In-group favouritism and out-group discrimination in naturally occurring groups

Klaus Abbink and Donna Harris

2019-01: Heterogeneity, Measurement Error, and Misallocation: Evidence from African Agriculture

Douglas Gollin and Christopher Udry

2018-20: On the economic importance of the determinants of long-term growth

Olivier Sterck

2018-19: Are the poor so present-biased?

Rachel Cassidy

2018-18: Access and Excess - The Effect of Internet Access on the Comsumption Decisions of the Poor

Pieter Joseph Sayer

2018-17: Spatial Inefficiencies in Africa’s Trade Network

Tilman Graff

2018-16: Ethnic diversity in Peruvian schools: Disentangling peer and class composition effects

Nicolas Pazos Navarro

2018-15: Restricting Trade and Reducing Variety: Evidence from Ethiopia

Pramila Krishnan and Peng Zhang

2018-14: Searching with friends

A Stefano Caria, Simon Franklin and Marc Witte

2018-13: Transport infrastructure and agricultural markets: Evidence from India's NS-EW Highway

Paul Healy

2018-12: Anonymity or Distance? Job Search and Labour Market Exclusion in a Growing African City

Girum Abebe, A Stefano Caria, Marcel Fafchamps, Paolo Falco, Simon Franklin and Simon Quinn

2018-11: Cutting the Head off the Snake: An Empirical Investigation of Hierarchical Corruption in Burkina Faso

Adam Salisbury