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A digital mobile-deposit service reduced deposit transaction costs but did not increase savings

Asset transfers can expand household-based economic activity, but can also draw more children into the labour force when other labour is unavailable

Increases in local mineral wealth raise both the likelihood of criminally charged politicians entering office and asset accumulation among incumbents

Discrimination in consumer lending seems to come largely from biased male officers; combatting it may require cultural changes at the institutional...

Criminalising sex work in Indonesia led to large increases in sexually transmitted infections among sex workers and likely across the whole population

Farmer-to-farmer information diffusion is a cost-effective approach for improving practices and profits for smallholder dairy farmers in East Africa

Incomplete and abandoned sewerage projects can increase risks of early life mortality and impose significant public health costs on populations

For individuals living in El Salvador’s gang territories, restrictions on freedom of movement significantly limit one’s labour market options