The impact of digital credit in low-income countries Digital credit does not appear to systematically improve lives, while the lack of transparency raises serious concerns about predatory lending Finance Valentina Brailovskaya Pascaline Dupas Jonathan Robinson Published 10.06.22
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
Specialised hiring and entrepreneurial success: Evidence from Nigeria Subsidising entrepreneurs to hire a marketing or accounting specialist can be more effective than trying to train the entrepreneur in these skills Firms Stephen Anderson David McKenzie Published 11.08.21
The power of edutainment: Evidence from Brazil and Nigeria Telenovelas in Brazil helped reduce fertility rates, while an MTV drama increased knowledge about HIV in Nigeria and encouraged safer sexual practices Health Eliana La Ferrara Published 28.04.21
Designing more effective interventions to prevent childhood stunting: Evidence from Nigeria Bundling interventions that offer parents health information along with cash transfers might yield more sustainable changes in early-life health outcomes for children Health Pedro Carneiro Lucy Kraftman Giacomo Mason Lucie Moore Imran Rasul Molly Scott Published 27.01.21
Urban-rural gaps in the developing world: Does internal migration offer opportunities? Policymakers might seek to address the frictions that prevent potentially beneficial migration to urban areas from taking place Migration & Urbanisation David Lagakos Published 20.01.21
Prison labour: The price of prisons and the lasting effects of incarceration Government use of prison labour can distort incentives for incarceration and have lasting negative effects on trust in legal institutions like police Institutions & Political Economy Belinda Archibong Nonso Obikili Published 03.08.20
What works when for early-childhood interventions? Evidence from Nigeria Information on raising children is more important in the first two years of a child’s life, whereas cash plays a bigger role from age 2 to 4 Health Imran Rasul Published 18.03.20
The politics of order in informal markets: Evidence from Lagos In the absence of the threat of state interference, leaders of private trader associations may extort from their own traders Firms Shelby Grossman Published 06.01.20
