The Alibaba effect: Spatial inequality and the welfare gains from e-commerce E-commerce disproportionately benefits consumers in small and remote places, helping to reduce disparities in living standards across locations Firms Jingting Fan Lixin Tang Weiming Zhu Ben Zou Published 23.02.18
Learning from drunk and absent policemen in Kenya Historical data from Kenya show that when an ethnic group gains power, public servants of that group may be emboldened to misbehave Institutions & Political Economy Alexander Moradi Oliver Vanden Eynde Patrick M Kuhn Published 22.02.18
Let their people come: Migrants as drivers of knowledge diffusion Migration, particularly skilled migration, is a driver of knowledge diffusion and it can induce productivity shifts as measured by new exports Migration & Urbanisation Dany Bahar Hillel Rapoport Published 19.02.18
Is inequality underestimated in Egypt? Evidence from house prices Evidence from the housing market suggests inequality is being substantially underestimated in Egypt, by about 33% Methods & Measurement Roy Van der Weide Christoph Lakner Elena Ianchovichina Published 16.02.18
Tax audits as scarecrows: Evidence from Uruguay How does information about tax audits affect tax evasion? Firms do increase their tax compliance but this response is not necessarily rational. Public Economics Marcelo Bergolo Rodrigo Ceni Guillermo Cruces Matias Giaccobasso Ricardo Perez-Truglia Published 15.02.18
Tackling youth unemployment: Vocational training versus apprenticeships While both vocational training and apprenticeships raise employment of poor Ugandan youth and are cost-effective in the long run, vocational training has larger impacts Labour Markets Oriana Bandiera Vittorio Bassi Robin Burgess Imran Rasul Munshi Sulaiman Anna Vitali Published 13.02.18
Does Fair Trade work? Fair Trade coffee produced in Costa Rica benefits the producers and skilled workers, but not the unskilled workers Trade Raluca Dragusanu Nathan Nunn Published 09.02.18
Population policies and fertility convergence While urbanisation and socioeconomic factors played a role, the global decline in fertility is largely due to successful population control programmes Health Tiloka de Silva Silvana Tenreyro Published 06.02.18
International migration's long-term impact: Evidence from a lottery Outcomes for migration lottery winners suggest the economic payoff to moving to a richer country comes immediately and persists for at least a decade Migration & Urbanisation John Gibson David McKenzie Halahingao Rohorua Steven Stillman Published 05.02.18
