DID
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VoxDev as an educational resource
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The long shadow of apartheid: How forced relocation to homelands still affects South Africa
This article explores the extent to which apartheid negatively impacted educational attainment, and shows that this occurred primarily through changing early childhood environments
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How building up the human capital of the world’s poor can help lessen the climate crisis
In India, areas that benefited from an expansion in schooling saw labour move away from agriculture in response to climate change
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The deadly toll of marketing infant formula in low- and middle-income countries
A careful examination of Nestlé’s marketing behaviour shows that Nestlé’s entry into low- and middle-income formula markets caused about 212,000 infant deaths per year among mothers without clean water access at the peak of the Nestlé controversy in 1981
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Cash transfers reduce adult and child mortality rates in low- and middle-income countries
Evidence from 37 low- and middle-income countries shows that cash transfer programmes were associated with a 20% reduction in mortality for adult women and an 8% reduction in mortality for children aged <5 years
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Improving frontline courts in India spurred local economic development
Increasing judicial staffing in frontline courts lowers the pending backlog of legal cases and enables capital stuck in litigation to be put to more productive uses, which increases access to working capital for local firms and improves firm productivity
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Can local ownership solve the resource curse in weak states? Evidence from Nigerian oil
Oil multinationals in Nigeria divesting their onshore assets to local firms resulted in substantial improvements in output and declines in oil theft and violence, driven by politically connected firms
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How Special Economic Zones shape education decisions in China
On average, Special Economic Zones in China increased local high school enrolment rates, but this masks varying impacts between different types of zones
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How (not) to win the war on drugs: Evidence from Colombia
Announcements of future policies can have substantial unintended consequences and caused a surge of coca production in Colombia