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Defining emerging market cities using lights at night
Satellite imagery of night-time city lights suggests that agglomeration is skill-biased in Brazil, China, and India, as it is in developed economies
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Learning to navigate a new financial technology: Evidence from Bangladesh
How do consumers learn to navigate a new financial technology? An experiment with workers from Bangladesh suggests that experience makes a difference
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Why promising trials often fail to result in agricultural yield gains: Evidence from Kenya
Farmer selection and researcher interference during trials can introduce bias, impacting how new technologies perform in real-world conditions
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Labour market adjustment to trade in developing countries: The role of the informal sector
In Brazil, shifts into non-tradables, non-employment and informal employment are important margins of labour adjustment to import competition
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Reducing rural-urban education gap through computer-assisted learning: Evidence from China
An ‘ed tech’ intervention in China had long-lasting positive effects across outcomes, suggesting potential for reducing the rural-urban education gap
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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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Informality and the effects of trade in developing countries
What are the effects of trade amidst a large informal sector? New research studies a model tightly connected to data on firms and workers in Brazil
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In-kind transfers as insurance: Evidence from India
While academics and policymakers prefer unconditional cash transfer to the poor, they value in-kind transfers that protect against price fluctuations
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The dangers of emerging-market competition: Evidence from Rwanda’s coffee supply chain
Increased competition in agriculture markets sustained by informal contracts can diminish performance and value for all players in the supply chain