Climate change and Indian agriculture Climate change could reduce farm incomes by 15-18%, and by as much as 20-25% in un-irrigated areas Agriculture Siddharth Hari Parth Khare Arvind Subramanian Published 06.08.18
The welfare effect of inducing persistent changes in behaviours The welfare effect of policies aimed at changing behaviours persistently may be larger than usually measured because of 'hysteresis' Energy & Environment Francisco Costa Francois Gerard Published 02.08.18
Agricultural productivity and rural-urban wage gaps revisited: Lessons from panel data Cities don't make workers (much) more productive, but productive workers move to cities Migration & Urbanisation Joan Hicks Marieke Kleemans Nicholas Li Edward Miguel Published 30.07.18
Why are Indian men surprisingly reluctant to cross state borders? India’s system of ‘fragmented entitlements’, whereby state residents get preferential treatment by the state government, hinders internal migration Migration & Urbanisation Zovanga Kone Maggie Y. Liu Aaditya Mattoo Çağlar Özden Siddharth Sharma Published 27.07.18
Growing out of corruption Economic growth can reduce corruption. A Vietnamese study shows that when employment in an industry doubled, bribery fell by 1.6 percentage points Institutions & Political Economy Jie Bai Seema Jayachandran Edmund Malesky Benjamin Olken Published 23.07.18
Countering the mining curse Mineral-rich countries often do not prosper economically due to increased local conflict associated with foreign ownership of mines Institutions & Political Economy Nicolas Berman Mathieu Couttenier Dominic Rohner Mathias Thoenig Published 20.07.18
Why is labour mobility in India so low? Rural insurance networks in India incentivise adult males to remain in villages, contributing to the country’s low rural-to-urban migration rates Migration & Urbanisation Kaivan Munshi Mark Rosenzweig Published 16.07.18
Imperfect substitution and development accounting Technological and institutional environments, rather than differences in human capital, are behind variations in skill premia across countries Labour Markets Francesco Caselli Antonio Ciccone Published 12.07.18
The welfare cost of political connections: Evidence from Brazilian matching grants Connected cities request and receive 15% more funds from the national government. Yet the welfare loss from this may be only 0.24% of the budget. Institutions & Political Economy Michel Azulai Published 09.07.18
