In Brazil, shifts into non-tradables, non-employment and informal employment are important margins of labour adjustment to import competition

An ‘ed tech’ intervention in China had long-lasting positive effects across outcomes, suggesting potential for reducing the rural-urban education gap

Low-cost interventions such as executive education courses can improve firms’ financial practices and decision making, and trigger economic...

The introduction of mobile money promoted migration out of rural areas by easing long-distance transfers and increasing resilience

By leveraging peer-learning effects, group-based consulting can be cheaper and more effective than individual interventions in improving SME...

A more selective academic environment benefits female students along multiple dimensions but male students fail to take advantage of this exposure

A video experiment uncovers the potential pitfalls of relying on legal reforms alone to reduce female early marriage in low-income 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

While academics and policymakers prefer unconditional cash transfer to the poor, they value in-kind transfers that protect against price fluctuations