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How does access to electricity affect people’s lives?
Free electricity connections in rural South African households changed home production technologies and induced more women to work in the market
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Does bottom-up accountability work? Evidence from Uganda
Whilst bottom-up pressure from citizens can improve healthcare service delivery, there is a ceiling to the positive effects it generates
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Improving shock-coping with savings: The case of transactional sex
Mobile banking to increase personal savings reduces the use of transactional sex for shock-coping among vulnerable women in Kenya
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Does patient demand contribute to overuse of prescription drugs? Evidence from Mali
Evidence from Mali shows that patient demand is an important contributor to the overuse of antimalarials
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Information is power: Evidence from Mexico City’s Labour Court
Providing personalised information on predicted case outcomes to parties in ongoing cases improved court efficiency and achieved better settlements
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The effects of land reforms on farm size and agricultural productivity
Land reforms, whilst well-intended, misallocate land and labour across farms, thereby reducing average farm size and agricultural productivity
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Labour standards in Asian export factories: Does compliance pay?
Compliant factories have higher quality and performance. Even so, noncompliant firms dominate the market. Could stronger financial incentives help?
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Would developing countries be safer if governments listened to business owners more?
Participation in drafting regulation appears to make firms more willing to see government as a legitimate regulatory authority
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VoxDev turns 2! Note from the Editor-in-Chief
A note from Tavneet Suri, our Editor-in-Chief, on our two-year anniversary