Publications

This paper talks about development economics and examines how policymakers and practitioners should interpret impact evaluation literature when presented with conflicting experimental and non-experime...chevron_right

This paper proposes a set of goals for the UN to follow as part of their 2015 Millennium Declaration on global development. The author argues that, instead of getting bogged down in hammering out the ...chevron_right

This report examines the ability of the US Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) to efficiently use its tools to encourage international entrepreneurship. The authors argue that, as it stands...chevron_right

This essay examines the importance of feedback on services provided by organizations to improve development, focusing specifically on the benefit of such feedback to aid organizations. The author furt...chevron_right

This paper explores why Africa’s resource-rich countries have not translated their wealth into sustained economic growth and poverty reduction. The authors argue that by transferring a portion of reso...chevron_right

This paper evaluates the impact of a health information intervention implemented through mobile phones in Uganda. The intervention aimed to improve sexual health knowledge and shift individuals toward...chevron_right

This paper talks about research on labor migration to Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. The author describes a new kind of research agenda on the effects of GCC migration and offers an example...chevron_right

Theory and evidence have raised concerns that microcredit does more harm than good, particularly when offered at high interest rates. In this paper the authors use a clustered randomized trial as well...chevron_right

In writing this paper, the authors worked with Compartamos Banco, the largest microlender in Mexico, to estimate long run price elasticities by randomizing the interest rate offered on its core group ...chevron_right

This paper argues that in pharmaceutical markets, variation in the arrival time of consumer heterogeneity creates differences between a producer’s ability to extract consumer surplus with preventives ...chevron_right

This essay argues that the World Bank should be ambitious in working towards clean energy approaches in its development strategies. However, the authors argue, it would be a mistake to definitively ru...chevron_right

This paper discusses the means by which the governance of the global economy can be made more legitimate and responsive to the world's poor. It argues that the politics, rules, and institutions of coo...chevron_right

This paper addresses India’s Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY, translated as “National Health Insurance Programme”), which has provided more than 110 million people with heavily subsidized health ...chevron_right

This paper outlines the importance of assessing international climate finance contributions while describing the difficulties in arriving at agreed measurements and indicators for assessment. The auth...chevron_right

This paper reports the results of a field experiment conducted prior to and during the October 2009 elections in Mozambique. The experiment was implemented nationwide and was based on three intervent...chevron_right