How childcare empowers women Providing access to childcare can help women achieve greater economic parity and enhance their agency, and could also lead to a substantial boost to the global economy... Labour Markets Selim Gulesci Published 26.04.23
Paid work for women and domestic violence: Evidence from Rwanda New coffee mills in Rwanda increase women's paid employment, and women's and their husbands' earnings, which decreases domestic violence... Labour Markets Deniz Sanin Published 19.04.23
Research into practice: Lessons from healthcare Key insights on using research in developing countries to shape global health policy... Health Zulfiqar Bhutta Published 12.04.23
Can agricultural extensions be discontinued? Evidence from Uganda How should development programmes that attempt to disseminate improved technologies be phased out?... Agriculture Munshi Sulaiman Published 05.04.23
How monitoring workers can backfire: Evidence from truck drivers in Liberia Monitoring drivers in Liberia raised effort on average, but broke the trust between managers and well-performing drivers... Firms Golvine de Rochambeau Published 29.03.23
Mother-father differences in spending on children: Evidence from Uganda Mothers and fathers spend differently on daughters relative to sons, which can perpetuate the benefits of empowering women today... Health Rebecca Dizon-Ross Seema Jayachandran Published 15.03.23
FDI inflows and domestic firms: Evidence from Vietnam What are the long-term effects of export opportunities to a large destination market for a low-income country?... Firms Nina Pavcnik Published 08.03.23
How child mortality persists across generations In developing countries, women with at least one sibling who died in childhood face 39% higher odds of losing a child themselves... Health Tom Vogl Published 01.03.23
Elite control and development in Brazil How do changes in the concentration of political power affect long-run development?... Institutions & Political Economy Claudio Ferraz Monica Martinez-Bravo Published 22.02.23