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Do local experiences or national narratives drive anti-migrant sentiment?
Local exposure to Venezuelan migrants does not necessarily lead to a rise in local xenophobia. In fact, evidence suggests that anti-migrant sentiment is a national-level phenomenon, driven by national narratives and divorced from local experiences wi...
Helping jobseekers signal their skills: A cost-effective strategy benefitting workers and firms
Signalling interventions bridge the information gap between firms and workers, helping jobseekers target their search, improve their applications and boost earnings while offering large potential aggregate gains.
The role of family planning in nurturing child health in India
Economic theory predicts that smaller families can lead to healthier children. Evidence from India shows contraception plays a vital role in reducing child malnutrition, potentially by enabling parents to invest more resources in each child.
Harnessing the benefits of digital agriculture for smallholder farmers in East Africa
An evaluation of six different text-message-based agricultural extension programmes, that collectively reached over 128,000 farmers in Kenya and Rwanda, shows that while the impacts of text messages are modest, they can be an extremely cost-effective...
