The VoxDev Editorial Board would like to congratulate the 2024 economic sciences laureates, Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson. All three laureates have made significant contributions to both development economics and political economy.

This week we featured research on urbanisation and flooding, Mexico's pre-school mandate, market access and firm growth, female labour force participation in Bangladesh, enforcement and informal employment, and a tree planting programme in the Philippines.

This week we launched our VoxDevLit on Taxation & Development, as well as featuring research on the gap between education policy and practice, the under adoption of air purifiers, scaling up information interventions and the impacts of large infrastructure projects on formal and informal firms.

How has research featured on VoxDev used different econometric techniques? Here are some examples from recent development economics research, offering insights for students, teachers and academics.

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This week we featured research on the impacts of rising food prices, predicting terrorism, providing agricultural advice at scale, humanitarian aid and the costs of inaction, pollution exposure and climate resilience.

This week at VoxDev we covered research on parenting interventions, technological diffusion, modern slavery, AI and entrepreneurship, local government, and the political payoffs to building infrastructure.

This week we covered research on women voters in Pakistan, judicial capture, macro development, irrigation as climate adaptation, and two education interventions in Africa.