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Adaptive experiments for policy research
Adaptive sampling has the potential to ensure that experiments better meet the learning goals of policymakers and are more beneficial to participants...
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Unintended consequences: How workfare programmes may fuel school dropouts in India
Despite evidence of increasing household wages, anti-poverty schemes in India can have an adverse effect by lowering human capital investment
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Lasting effects of colonial-era resource exploitation in Congo: Concessions, violence, and indirect rule
Concessions granted to private companies to extract natural resources still have negative effects on present-day development in the DRC
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Can minimum-age-of-marriage laws eradicate child marriage? Evidence from Mexico
Increasing the minimum age of marriage to 18 years old in Mexico reduced formal marriage but did not prevent school dropout or early motherhood
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How does shame and embarrassment impact social learning? Evidence from India
People are less likely to ask questions in their communities if it exposes the limits of their knowledge.
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Launching VoxDevLits
VoxDev’s editor-in-chief introduces it’s new feature – VoxDevLits, dynamic literature reviews edited by a community of scholars working in the field
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The impact of criminalising sex work in Indonesia
Criminalising sex work in Indonesia led to large increases in sexually transmitted infections among sex workers and likely across the whole population
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Is improving tax administration more effective than raising tax rates? Evidence from Indonesia
Enhanced tax administration can increase government revenue collection from medium-sized firms in developing countries even more than raising tax...
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Impact of amnesty programmes: Evidence from undocumented refugees in Colombia
Providing migrants working rights and social benefits has minimal impacts on local labour markets