Using information to foster parental engagement in education: Evidence from Colombia Parents respond to information by increasing their educational investment, but this initial response decays unless report cards are sustained Education Felipe Barrera-Osorio David Deming Katie Gonzalez Francisco Lagos Published 17.01.22
The impact of loans and grants on development: Evidence from microenterprises in Egypt For microenterprises in Egypt, loans and grants increase incomes similarly, but only among certain recipients Firms Bruno Crépon Mohamed El-Komi Adam Osman Published 14.01.22
Do migrants affect the domestic economy? Evidence from Colombia Large-scale regularisation of Venezuelan migrants had little effect on Colombian workers but dramatically improved migrants’ socioeconomic conditions Migration & Urbanisation Sandra Rozo Published 10.01.22
How democracy causes growth: Evidence from Indonesia Democratically elected leaders are less likely to impose socially inefficient regulations or engage in rent-seeking and, hence, enhance firm productivity Institutions & Political Economy Ama Baafra Abeberese Prabhat Barnwal Ritam Chaurey Priya Mukherjee Published 07.01.22
Bursting the bubble of population growth: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa The bulk of this century’s population growth lies in the exceptionally high demand for children of poorer households in sub-Saharan Africa Health Céline Zipfel Published 03.01.22
Contract labour and firm growth in India Legal constraints to firm growth incentivise large firms to find loopholes by hiring contract labour Firms Marianne Bertrand Chang-Tai Hsieh Nick Tsivanidis Published 13.12.21
Improving healthcare provisioning through decentralised financing: Evidence from Nigeria Providing operating funds to public health facilities can be as effective as alternative pay-for-performance models, at half the cost Health Eeshani Kandpal Madhulika Khanna Benjamin Loevinsohn Elina Pradhan Published 06.12.21
Can privatised healthcare add value? The Mexico diabetes experiment Private care led to large savings for the public sector and improved health outcomes through more access to care, not necessarily better technology Health Ari Bronsoler Jonathan Gruber Enrique Seira Published 29.11.21
Strategic or confused? Firm behaviour and missing millions in Uganda’s VAT A quarter of Ugandan firms appear to consistently make costly mistakes, with potentially far-reaching consequences for theory and policy design Firms Miguel Almunia Jonas Hjort Justine Knebelmann Lin Tian Published 22.11.21
