Missing unmarried women Being unmarried, especially through widowhood, can have substantial effects on relative rates of female mortality in the developing world Public Economics Siwan Anderson Debraj Ray Published 10.10.15
Average working hours: New global dataset Residents of poor countries are not only ‘consumption poor’, they are also ‘leisure poor’ Methods & Measurement Alexander Bick Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln David Lagakos Published 04.06.16
China’s growth prospects The future may bring political tensions in reconciling economic dreams with the economic reality of slower growth Macroeconomics & Growth Robert Barro Published 04.02.16
What will the world look like in 2030? Maddison’s forecasts revisited Updated projections forecast a world starkly different from today’s, with poor countries accounting for nearly 70% of global GDP in 2030. Macroeconomics & Growth Andrew Mold Published 21.06.17
Floods and the location of economic activity Economic activity is concentrated in low-lying urban areas despite greater risk of flooding, and tends to return to these areas rather than relocating Infrastructure Adriana Kocornik-Mina Thomas McDermott Guy Michaels Ferdinand Rauch Published 21.01.16
Contaminated water and mental health: Evidence from Bangladesh Drinking contaminated drinking can lead to symptoms of arsenicosis, with negative impacts on mental health, household productivity, and wellbeing Health Shyamal Chowdhury Annabelle Krause Klaus F. Zimmermann Published 28.04.16
“The Office” goes to India: How bad management keeps India poor Better management of Indian firms could lead to massive improvements in productivity and performance Firms Nicholas Bloom Aprajit Mahajan David McKenzie John Roberts Published 13.04.11
Land and financial misallocation in India A strong positive correlation emerges between the misallocation of land and misallocation of finance Finance Gilles Duranton Ejaz Ghani Arti Grover Goswami William Kerr Published 27.05.16
Migration and institutions In this video, Kaivan Munshi discusses the role of informal community-based institutions in migration and the development process Institutions & Political Economy Kaivan Munshi Published 29.06.16
